Scientists Tuesday are expected to announce a major advance in the long-running quest to harness fusion, the energy that powers the sun and stars. For the first time, researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California were able to produce more energy in a fusion reaction than used to ignite it, something called net energy gain.
U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm announced a major scientific breakthrough Tuesday in the decades-long quest to harness fusion, the energy that powers the sun and stars.
For the first time, researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California were able to produce more energy in a fusion reaction than used to.