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Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Confirmed: California Team Achieved Ignition
newsweek.com ^
| 8/12/22 AT 9:20 AM EDT
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Posted on 08/13/2022 12:57:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL's) National Ignition Facility (NIF) recorded the first case of ignition on August 8, 2021, the results of which have now been published in three peer-reviewed papers.
Nuclear fusion is the process that powers the Sun and other stars: heavy hydrogen atoms collide with enough force that they fuse together to form a helium atom, releasing large amounts of energy as a by-product. Once the hydrogen plasma "ignites", the fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining, with the fusions themselves producing enough power to maintain the temperature without external heating.
Ignition during a fusion reaction essentially means that the reaction itself produced enough energy to be self-sustaining, which would be necessary in the use of fusion to generate electricity.
In this latest milestone at the LLNL, researchers recorded an energy yield of more than 1.3 megajoules (MJ) during only a few nanoseconds.
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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: california; fusion; haha; ignition; kevmo; llnl; nif; physics; yeahright
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To: gibsonguy
I have this nagging fear that one of these days guys are going to blow us to mars.
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posted on
08/13/2022 1:21:43 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: BenLurkin
I thought I read that ignition had been done earlier, but sustainment of the fusion reaction has not. Cannot keep the flame going, so to speak. Hence the multiple containment designs being developed.
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posted on
08/13/2022 1:22:00 PM PDT
by
doorgunner69
(Let's go Brandon)
To: BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
It will be ready for commercial development in 20 years!
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posted on
08/13/2022 1:22:42 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
To: Paladin2
And billions of research dollars
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posted on
08/13/2022 1:25:15 PM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
To: BenLurkin
Hahahaha....what did the clown think would happen?
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posted on
08/13/2022 1:26:25 PM PDT
by
fuzzylogic
(welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
To: BenLurkin
INCOMING!!
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posted on
08/13/2022 1:28:15 PM PDT
by
Samurai_Jack
(This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
To: rarestia
>>That’s…wild.
Per the excerpt, the ignition was self sustained. ??
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posted on
08/13/2022 1:28:47 PM PDT
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
To: BenLurkin
This has been “announced” since the 60’s ....when you look into it, it was always achieved for some number of femto-seconds (one millionth of one billionth of a second).
Let me translate the article for you.....WE WANT MORE BILLIONS AN BILLIONS for more research.
To: Paladin2
That was 10 years ago, so it was 20 years.
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posted on
08/13/2022 1:35:46 PM PDT
by
Hostage
(Article V)
To: jimtorr
somehow i don’t think a few nanoseconds is long enough to exceed the amount of energy used to start the reaction ...
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posted on
08/13/2022 1:36:38 PM PDT
by
catnipman
(In a post-covid world, ALL "science" is now political science: stolen elections have consequences)
To: SaveFerris
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posted on
08/13/2022 1:37:10 PM PDT
by
Steely Tom
([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
To: Deaf Smith
They produced and ignition that could be self-sustaining. I suspect they had a mechanism to remove the fuel.
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posted on
08/13/2022 1:39:44 PM PDT
by
rarestia
(“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
To: jimtorr
50 quadrillion watts for 90 trillionths of a second.
To: jimtorr
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posted on
08/13/2022 1:43:32 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
(Some men want to watch the world burn. It is they that want you to buy an electric car.)
To: Chad_the_Impaler
Correction: Merely 15 quadrillion watts in 90 trillionths of a second.
To: rarestia
“But it occurred in a nanosecond. That’s... wow.”
Nanosecond???
How many shakes of a lamb’s tail is that?
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posted on
08/13/2022 1:49:08 PM PDT
by
oldvirginian
(The CCP is the world's largest criminal organization. The democrats are jealous.)
To: Steely Tom
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posted on
08/13/2022 1:51:02 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: BenLurkin
Good, we should have an industrial scale sustained reaction in say 30 years. /s
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posted on
08/13/2022 1:52:21 PM PDT
by
VTenigma
(Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
To: oldvirginian
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posted on
08/13/2022 1:52:43 PM PDT
by
rarestia
(“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
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