The US Department of Energy announced an accomplishment in nuclear fusion that will go down in history – scientists have produced more energy in fusion than what was used to activate it.
The feat, called ‘net energy gain,’ has been the holy grail of scientists who have been on a decades-long quest to harness the same energy that powers the sun and stars
A team of scientists made the breakthrough at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF)