The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California announced that an experiment carried out in its National Ignition Facility has made a breakthrough in nuclear fusion research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the experiment, lasers were used to heat a small target or fuel pellets. These pellets containing deuterium and tritium fused and produced more energy. The team noted that they were able to achieve a yield of more than 1.3 megajoules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The megajoule of energy released in the experiment is indeed impressive in fusion terms, but in practice, this is equivalent to the energy required to boil a kettle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nuclear fusion is defined as the combining of several small nuclei into one large nucleus with the subsequent release of huge amounts of energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nuclear fusion powers our sun and harnessing this fusion energy could provide an unlimited amount of renewable energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nuclear fusion energy is a good choice as the baseload energy in the future with many advantages, such as inexhaustibility of resources, inherent safety, no long-lived radioactive wastes, and almost no CO2 emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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