{"id":169151,"date":"2023-08-06T20:22:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T01:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/we-repeated-ignition-lab-behind-nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-duplicates-success-after-months-of-near-misses"},"modified":"2023-08-06T20:22:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T01:22:46","slug":"we-repeated-ignition-lab-behind-nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-duplicates-success-after-months-of-near-misses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/we-repeated-ignition-lab-behind-nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-duplicates-success-after-months-of-near-misses","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We repeated ignition\u2019: Lab behind nuclear fusion breakthrough duplicates success after months of near-misses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/we-repeated-ignition-lab-behind-nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-duplicates-success-after-months-of-near-misses.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They finally reached ignition again last week, according to a statement Sunday from the lab. The news was first reported by the Financial Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn an experiment conducted on July 30, we repeated ignition,\u201d the statement read. \u201cAnalysis of those results is underway. As is our standard practice, we plan on reporting those results at upcoming scientific conferences and in peer-reviewed publications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unlike fission, the process used in current nuclear power plants, fusion involves smashing atoms together instead of splitting them apart. It theoretically can supply carbon-free energy without long-lasting radioactive waste. But generations of scientists have struggled to master it in a controlled reaction, even though it has been the power source of nuclear weapons for decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They finally reached ignition again last week, according to a statement Sunday from the lab. The news was first reported by the Financial Times. \u201cIn an experiment conducted on July 30, we repeated ignition,\u201d the statement read. \u201cAnalysis of those results is underway. As is our standard practice, we plan on reporting those results at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169151","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}