Lawrence Livermore National Lab and the Futility of Nuclear Fusion
Anybody not wearing two million sunblock in this reactor is going to have a real bad day, get it?
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On December 05, 2022, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) achieved a spectacular technical feat. For the first time in human history, a controlled nuclear fusion reaction reached scientific energy breakeven – more energy was generated by the reaction than was required to initiate the reaction…