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Performance was gradually improved until, as of 2024, the fusion energy routinely exceeded 2 MJ. [31] To be useful for energy production, a fusion facility must produce fusion output at least an order of magnitude more than the energy used to power the laser amplifiers – 400 MJ in the case of NIF. [32]
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If all goes to plan, Virginia will be the site of the world’s first grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant, able to harness this futuristic clean power and generate electricity from it by the ...
Advances in the potential energy source may not be about electricity, at least at first.
Fusion ignition is the point at which a nuclear fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining. This occurs when the energy being given off by the reaction heats the fuel mass more rapidly than it cools. In other words, fusion ignition is the point at which the increasing self-heating of the nuclear fusion removes the need for external heating. [1]
Researchers at this Livermore, Calif., facility had spent more than 13 years trying and failing to attain fusion ignition, meaning that the reaction outputs more energy than scientists put into it.
In March 2024, the company announced that it had set a record of 1.85-terapascals with an 80-terawatt shot using the Z-machine at Sandia National Laboratories. [10] In April 2024, the company announced that it had extended the distance its projectiles can travel without self-destructing from 1 cm to 10 cm. [ 11 ]
Jennifer Granholm, secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy, says that the U.S. is aiming to create a working fusion reactor by 2035.