{"id":153982,"date":"2022-12-31T02:29:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T08:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/with-historic-explosion-a-long-sought-fusion-breakthrough"},"modified":"2022-12-31T02:29:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T08:29:41","slug":"with-historic-explosion-a-long-sought-fusion-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/with-historic-explosion-a-long-sought-fusion-breakthrough","title":{"rendered":"With historic explosion, a long sought fusion breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/with-historic-explosion-a-long-sought-fusion-breakthrough2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More energy out than in. For 7 decades, fusion scientists have chased this elusive goal, known as energy gain. At 1 a.m. on 5 December, researchers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California finally did it, focusing 2.05 megajoules of laser light onto a tiny capsule of fusion fuel and sparking an explosion that produced 3.15 MJ of energy\u2014the equivalent of about three sticks of dynamite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is extremely exciting, it\u2019s a major breakthrough,\u201d says Anne White, a plasma physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was not involved in the work.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Herrmann, who leads NIF as the program director for weapons physics and design at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, says it feels \u201cwonderful,\u201d adding: \u201cI\u2019m so proud of the team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More energy out than in. For 7 decades, fusion scientists have chased this elusive goal, known as energy gain. At 1 a.m. on 5 December, researchers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California finally did it, focusing 2.05 megajoules of laser light onto a tiny capsule of fusion fuel and sparking an explosion that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153982","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}