{"id":143886,"date":"2022-08-12T23:22:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-13T04:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-confirmed-california-team-achieved-ignition"},"modified":"2022-08-12T23:22:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-13T04:22:27","slug":"nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-confirmed-california-team-achieved-ignition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-confirmed-california-team-achieved-ignition","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear fusion breakthrough confirmed: California team achieved ignition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-confirmed-california-team-achieved-ignition3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If we could harness fusion to generate electricity, it would be one of the most efficient and least polluting sources of energy possible.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A major breakthrough in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/nuclear-fusion-tokamak-reactor-equation-models-1727538\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Nuclear Fusion Energy Reactor Breakthrough Set To Help Stabilize Plasma\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">nuclear fusion<\/a> has been confirmed a year after it was achieved at a laboratory in California.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory\u2019s (LLNL\u2019s) National Ignition Facility (NIF) recorded the first case of ignition on August 8, 2021, the results of which have now been published in three <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.llnl.gov\/news\/three-peer-reviewed-papers-highlight-scientific-results-national-ignition-facility-record\" class=\"\">peer-reviewed paper<\/a>s.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear fusion is the process that powers the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/earth-pummeled-solar-storms-more-sunspots-appearsuns-surface-1731651\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Earth Pummeled by Solar Storms As More Sunspots Appear on Sun's Surface\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">Sun<\/a> and other stars: heavy hydrogen atoms collide with enough force that they fuse together to form a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/earth-core-leaking-helium-primordial-big-bang-1693263\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Earth's Core Appears To Be Leaking Primordial Helium From the Big Bang\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"\">helium atom<\/a>, releasing large amounts of energy as a by-product. Once the hydrogen plasma \u201cignites\u201d, the fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining, with the fusions themselves producing enough power to maintain the temperature without external heating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we could harness fusion to generate electricity, it would be one of the most efficient and least polluting sources of energy possible. A major breakthrough in nuclear fusion has been confirmed a year after it was achieved at a laboratory in California. Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory\u2019s (LLNL\u2019s) National Ignition Facility (NIF) recorded [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143886","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}