As we warned you, the United States Department of Energy has officially announced that the nuclear fusion has finally been achieved. For the first time, researchers have created a nuclear fusion reaction that produced more energy than was input. An important step in human history.
The experiment was conducted on December 5 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and has generated 3.15 megajoules of energy, more than the 2.05 megajoules it took to create it: with a gain of 1.10 megajoules.
“Scientifically, this is the first time this has been shown to be possible‘ Gianluca Sarri, a physicist at Queen’s University Belfast, told New Scientist.’Thanks to theory they knew it was bound to happen sooner or later, but it was never seen experimentally in real life.“
In addition to being much cheaper than splitting (which produces a lot of waste), fusion does not release carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas that is released into the atmosphere and causes climate change. While Tuesday’s December 13 announcement is a huge step forward in nuclear fusion energy, commercial-scale application of the technology is sadly still years away.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, a theoretical physicist, pointed out that the process used by the Department of Energy requires tritium, a rare and radioactive isotope of hydrogen.
