{"id":152839,"date":"2022-12-14T13:24:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T19:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/nuclear-fusion-lab-achieves-ignition-what-does-that-mean-and-why-is-it-so-important"},"modified":"2022-12-14T13:24:51","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T19:24:51","slug":"nuclear-fusion-lab-achieves-ignition-what-does-that-mean-and-why-is-it-so-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/nuclear-fusion-lab-achieves-ignition-what-does-that-mean-and-why-is-it-so-important","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear fusion lab achieves \u2018ignition\u2019: What does that mean, and why is it so important?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K2ktAL4rGuY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have been striving to achieve fusion ignition for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) announced a major breakthrough for nuclear fusion on Tuesday, December 13. In a historic first, they achieved fusion ignition during a nuclear fusion experiment. This means they produced more energy than they put into their fusion experiment, paving the way for practically limitless clean energy production from nuclear fusion.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s why that achievement was described as a \u201chistory-making\u201d moment by US Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm during the announcement event.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>LLNL<\/p>\n<p>In a historic first, they achieved fusion ignition during a nuclear fusion experiment. This means they produced more energy than they put into their fusion experiment, paving the way for practically limitless clean energy production from nuclear fusion.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/nuclear-fusion-lab-achieves-ignition-what-does-that-mean-and-why-is-it-so-important\">Continue reading \u201cNuclear fusion lab achieves \u2018ignition\u2019: What does that mean, and why is it so important?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have been striving to achieve fusion ignition for decades. Scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) announced a major breakthrough for nuclear fusion on Tuesday, December 13. In a historic first, they achieved fusion ignition during a nuclear fusion experiment. This means they produced more energy than they put into their fusion experiment, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152839","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}