We could be a step closer to the commercially viable production of limitless nuclear fusion energy.
, reveals surprising new details that could help the scientific community finally achieve the holy grail of nuclear fusion — net energy production.Since 2009, NIF scientists have been using an array of 192 lasers to shoot high-energy pulses at a small fuel capsule made up of deuterium and tritium. The researchers apply the destructive, intense heat of the lasers to cause the atoms to fuse into helium and release massive amounts of energy.
Now, the new analysis of this process, called inertial confinement fusion , shows that it behaves in unexpected ways. The researchers found, for example, that the ions inside their burning plasma have higher energy than their models predicted. “This implies that the ions undergoing fusion have more energy than expected in the highest-performing shots, something that isn't predicted — or able to be predicted — by the normal radiation hydrodynamics codes used to simulate ICF implosions,” Alastair Moore, lead author of the new paper, explained in
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