{"id":169290,"date":"2023-08-08T16:24:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T21:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/us-scientists-achieve-net-energy-gain-for-second-time-in-a-fusion-reaction"},"modified":"2023-08-08T16:24:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T21:24:52","slug":"us-scientists-achieve-net-energy-gain-for-second-time-in-a-fusion-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/us-scientists-achieve-net-energy-gain-for-second-time-in-a-fusion-reaction","title":{"rendered":"US scientists achieve net energy gain for second time in a fusion reaction"},"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\/LoKWourNJEs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>US scientists have achieved net energy gain in a nuclear fusion reaction <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2022\/dec\/12\/breakthrough-in-nuclear-fusion-could-mean-near-limitless-energy\">for the second time<\/a> since a historic breakthrough in December last year in the quest to find a near-limitless, safe and clean source of energy.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california\">California<\/a>-based Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory repeated the breakthrough in an experiment in the National Ignition Facility (NIF) on 30 July that produced a higher energy yield than in December, a Lawrence Livermore spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US scientists have achieved net energy gain in a nuclear fusion reaction for the second time since a historic breakthrough in December last year in the quest to find a near-limitless, safe and clean source of energy. Scientists at the California-based Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory repeated the breakthrough in an experiment in the National Ignition [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169290","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\/169290","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}