Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says U.S. scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in nuclear fusion, calling it “one of the most impressive scientific feats of the 21st century.”
The U.S. Department of Energy announced Tuesday a monumental milestone in nuclear fusion research: a"net energy gain" was achieved for the first time in history by scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
"It strengthens our national security, and ignition allows us to replicate certain conditions only found in the stars and in the sun," she said."This milestone moves us one significant step closer to the possibility of zero carbon abundance fusion energy powering our society.""Today, we tell the world that America has achieved a significant scientific breakthrough," said Granholm.
has been considered the holy grail of energy creation that some say could save humans from extinction. It combines two hydrogen atoms, which then makes helium and a whole lot of energy. "We've known how to fuse atoms and generate energy. We just haven't been able to control it," said deGrasse Tyson, author of"Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization."
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