Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times::Scientists in California make a significant step in what could one day be an important solution to the global climate crisis, driven primarily by burning fossil fuels.

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      11 months ago

      @Funkytom467 no, JET was doing power plant research.

      NIF is studying detonation of fusion explosions. The only other way to do this is to set off a thermonuclear bomb, which the US has signed international treaties promising not to do, and which is trivially easily detected from the other side of the world.

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        11 months ago

        Yes i immediately deleted my answer after i saw i confused the two. My bad, i wasn’t aware of NIF before.

        (Gonna go ahead and start looking it up some more…)