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Carolyn Kuranz, Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering, University of Michigan

HISTORICAL FACTS: Why fusion ignition is being hailed as a major breakthrough in fusion a nuclear physicist explains - The Untold Story

The target chamber at the National Ignition Facility has been the site of a number of breakthroughs in fusion physics. U.S. Department of Energy/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

American scientists have announced what they have called a major breakthrough in a long-elusive goal of creating energy from nuclear fusion.

The U.S. Department of Energy said on Dec. 13, 2022, that for the first time – and after several decades of trying – scientists have managed to get more energy out of the process than they had to put in.

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