Nuclear fusion: in and out

Nobody really doubted that fusion could eventually be made to produce useful energy one way or another, but it still needed to be demonstrated in practice. Now it has been.

During a Dec. 13 press conference, Jill Hruby, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Administrator, said in achieving ignition, researchers have 'opened a new chapter in NNSA’s science-based Stockpile Stewardship Program.'Photograph courtesy of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

December 15, 2022

LONDON, U.K.—Nuclear fusion, the holy grail that would finally end all the world’s energy problems, has been receding into the future at the rate of about one year per year all my adult life—it was always “about 30 years away”—but suddenly we’re catching up. Un...

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