COMMENTARY: The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory fusion breakthrough illuminates a new path for clean energy. It also cements California’s role as a world leader in cutting-edge science and technology.
The nuclear fusion achievement is the culmination of 60 years of creative science and rigorous engineering. In 1972, John Nuckolls, an LLNL scientist who later became its director, postulated that fusion could be achieved by focusing lasers on a target of deuterium and tritium. The need for building a sufficiently powerful laser to realize this was recognized in the 1990s, when the U.S.
In our 30-year absence of testing nuclear weapons, this capacity is assured by a deep knowledge of the underlying science of how nuclear devices work, computational modeling using the world’s most advanced computers, and validation of those models with experiments such as those performed at the NIF. The breakthrough accomplished this week is a milestone that illuminates a new path. While it won’t solve the world’s energy problems overnight, it will catalyze further breakthroughs and accelerate the development of fusion energy based on the NIF technology – as well as fusion energy from competing technologies. It should inspire new generations to tackle the difficult problems associated with the world’s reliance on fossil fuels.
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