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AuthorRiggs, Mike

THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY announced in December that researchers at the National Ignition Facility had, for the first time ever, achieved "ignition" in a fusion reaction, meaning researchers created a fusion reaction that releases more energy than it consumes. Physicist Tom Hartsfield wrote in Big Think that the laser-powered reaction "would not quite power one 40-watt refrigerator light bulb for a day" and that commercial opportunities remain decades away, at best. Meanwhile, the two...

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