LASER-POWERED FUSION EXPERIMENT MORE THAN DOUBLES ITS POWER OUTPUT

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The team at the US Department of Energy's National Ignition Facility has increased the yield of its net-positive fusion experiment to 8.6 megajoules. They made history in 2022 when they generated 3.15 megajoules in the first controlled fusion reaction to generate more energy than it consumed. While none of the experiments have been effective enough to feed electrons back to the grid, they show that controlled nuclear fusion is more than hypothetical.