This is an important step toward net fusion energy.
According to a BBC article, scientists from California's National Ignition Facility (NIF) demonstrated "burning plasma" in the laboratory for the first time, a vital step toward producing practically infinite fusion energy.
Nuclear fusion occurs when two atoms collide to form a heavier nucleus, releasing massive quantities of energy in the process. Scientists have been striving to harness the mechanism — which is the same one utilized by the Sun and stars to generate energy — for decades.
The scientific community has now accomplished "a significant step towards self-sustaining fusion energy," according to a recent report published in Nature. The scientists at NIF, which is based at LLNL in California, demonstrated a mechanism for heating plasma to the extraordinarily high temperatures required by exploiting the fusion reaction itself.
Alex Zylstra, the study's co-lead, told VICE in an interview that "To achieve fusion, we must heat the fuel to a very high temperature—roughly 100 million degrees—and historically, this has been accomplished by heating the fuel. The significance of a burning plasma is that the fusion process is now providing the majority of the fuel heating." This is crucial to achieving net fusion since it would drastically reduce the amount of energy necessary to start the reaction in the first place.
The results of a 192-laser experiment are stunning.
The scientists used 192 laser beams to target a two-millimeter capsule carrying thermonuclear fuel in order to achieve the burning plasma milestone. The laser explosion heats and compresses the fuel, causing the fuel, which is made up of deuterium and tritium, to fuse into a helium atom. The researchers were able to extract 170 kilojoules from the peppercorn-sized thermonuclear fuel capsule. Although this isn't a huge quantity of energy, the researchers believe the experiment can be scaled up for full-scale fusion operations. So far, scientists have only been able to create a fraction of the energy required to run their tokamak fusion reactors. However, a series of recent developments show that we may be on the approach of producing net fusion energy, a feat that would give the world with infinite, sustainable energy. For example, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, a Bill Gates-backed business, claimed in September last year that it had built a 20-tesla superconducting magnet that could aid in the long-term maintenance of the fusion process. Last month, another business, Tokamak Energy, claimed that its own magnet experiments had been successful. It's taken decades to get here, but the world is on the verge of achieving net fusion energy, one breakthrough at a time.
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