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Though ignition remains the ultimate goal, the milestone of achieving fuel gains greater than 1 has been reached for the first time ever on any facility. In a paper published in the Feb. 12 online issue of the journal Nature, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) detail a series of experiments on the National Ignition Facility (NIF), which show an order of magnitude improvement in yield performance over past experiments.
"What's really exciting is that we are seeing a steadily increasing contribution to the yield coming from the boot-strapping process we call alpha-particle self-heating as we push the implosion a little harder each time," said lead author Omar Hurricane
"What's really exciting is that we are seeing a steadily increasing contribution to the yield coming from the boot-strapping process we call alpha-particle self-heating as we push the implosion a little harder each time," said lead author Omar Hurricane
So they got more out than they put into a fusion reaction. Yay for Science?
What say you?
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Still a worthless waste of money. : | 0 (0.0%) | |
Global warming is caused by cows! : | 0 (0.0%) | |
I'm gonna need to see more math I don't understand before I believe any of that. : | 3 (17.6%) | |
Who gives a ****, beer me. : | 1 (5.9%) | |
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