{"id":197714,"date":"2024-10-14T21:26:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T02:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/fusion-experiment-sets-record-generating-10-quadrillion-watts-of-power"},"modified":"2024-10-14T21:26:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T02:26:30","slug":"fusion-experiment-sets-record-generating-10-quadrillion-watts-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/fusion-experiment-sets-record-generating-10-quadrillion-watts-of-power","title":{"rendered":"Fusion experiment sets record, generating 10 quadrillion watts of power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/fusion-experiment-sets-record-generating-10-quadrillion-watts-of-power.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists achieved a record-breaking 10 quadrillion-watt energy burst using 192 giant lasers.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have achieved a groundbreaking result in nuclear fusion by generating an energy burst of more than 10 quadrillion watts. This was accomplished by using 192 giant lasers to target a tiny hydrogen pellet, releasing 1.3 megajoules of energy in a fraction of a second. The experiment, carried out at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), marks a significant step forward in fusion research and brings scientists closer to achieving \u201cignition,\u201d where a fusion reaction generates more energy than it consumes.<\/p>\n<p>In this latest experiment, conducted at the NIF, researchers focused intense beams of light from the world\u2019s largest lasers onto a pea-sized pellet of hydrogen. The lasers delivered an immense amount of energy to the pellet, causing it to emit 1.3 megajoules of energy in just 100 trillionths of a second. This amount of energy is equivalent to about 10% of the sunlight that hits Earth at any moment and is significantly higher than the previous record of 170 kilojoules.<\/p>\n<p>Although the hydrogen pellet absorbed more energy from the lasers than it released, the experiment produced approximately 70% of the energy absorbed, a dramatic improvement over past efforts. Scientists hope to eventually reach the break-even point, where the fusion reaction releases 100% or more of the energy it absorbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists achieved a record-breaking 10 quadrillion-watt energy burst using 192 giant lasers. Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have achieved a groundbreaking result in nuclear fusion by generating an energy burst of more than 10 quadrillion watts. This was accomplished by using 192 giant lasers to target a tiny hydrogen pellet, releasing [\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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197714","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=197714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}