Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm is expected tomorrow to announce a 'major scientific breakthrough' in nuclear fusion energy — which promises almost limitless carbon-free power.
Decades of effort have gone into fusion energy, which promises almost limitless carbon-free power — without the dangerous waste from traditional fission reactors.
The breakthrough came in the past two weeks at the National Ignition Facility of the federal Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, the Financial Times reported in aGranholm will announce scientists for the first time have produced "a fusion reaction that creates a net energy gain — a major milestone in the decades-long, multibillion-dollar quest to develop a technology that provides unlimited, cheap, clean power,"Progress in showing conceptual viability would be just...
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