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Laser-powered fusion experiment more than doubles its power output
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Ignition Facility increased the yield of the experiment in recent attempts.
The world’s only net-positive fusion experiment has been steadily ramping up the amount of power it produces, TechCrunch has learned. That tiny pellet is dropped into a spherical vacuum chamber 10 meters in diameter, where 192 powerful laser beams converge on the target. While no magnetic confinement experiments have produced net-positive results, several are being constructed or designed with the expectation that they’ll hit that milestone.
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