Watch: Dept. of Energy announces nuclear fusion breakthrough

Описание: Considered the holy grail of energy production, fusion is the opposite of the fission process that powers nuclear plants. Scientists around the world have been working for nearly a century on this clean, potentially limitless source of power.

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Scientists have apparently made a critical breakthrough in a long-sought-after energy system that could make clean, carbon-free and non-radioactive electricity production in the decades to come. A Department of Energy news conference is scheduled for Tuesday morning to announce a "major scientific breakthrough." The scientists involved said Monday they were not yet able to comment.

In stories published Sunday evening, the Financial Times and the Washington Post said the agency will announce that scientists at the federal Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have for the first time created a nuclear fusion reaction that produced more energy than it took to create.

Considered the holy grail of energy production, fusion is the opposite of the fission process that powers nuclear plants. Fusion creates power by fusing two atoms together, fission power comes from splitting them apart.

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