{"id":126403,"date":"2021-08-17T18:25:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T01:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/a-national-lab-just-achieved-a-wright-brothers-moment-in-nuclear-fusion"},"modified":"2021-08-17T18:25:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T01:25:06","slug":"a-national-lab-just-achieved-a-wright-brothers-moment-in-nuclear-fusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/a-national-lab-just-achieved-a-wright-brothers-moment-in-nuclear-fusion","title":{"rendered":"A national lab just achieved a \u2018Wright Brothers moment\u2019 in nuclear fusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-national-lab-just-achieved-a-wright-brothers-moment-in-nuclear-fusion.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The results make \u201ca significant step toward ignition,\u201d the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>At the National Ignition Facility, which is the size of three football fields, super powerful laser beams recreate the temperatures and pressures similar to what exists in the cores of stars, giant planets and inside exploding nuclear weapons, a spokesperson tells CNBC.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 8 a laser light was focused onto a target the size of a BB which resulted in \u201ca hot-spot the diameter of a human hair, generating more than 10 quadrillion watts of fusion power for 100 trillionths of a second,\u201d the written statement says.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s key is that the results make \u201ca significant step toward ignition,\u201d said a statement from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.llnl.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The results make \u201ca significant step toward ignition,\u201d the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced on Tuesday. At the National Ignition Facility, which is the size of three football fields, super powerful laser beams recreate the temperatures and pressures similar to what exists in the cores of stars, giant planets and inside exploding nuclear weapons, a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}