In Opinion: The prospect of nuclear fusion as clean energy is closer than it's ever been. Here’s why California should be proud of Livermore Lab’s breakthrough.
At 1:03 a.m. on Monday, the prospect of a world fueled by clean nuclear fusion took a giant leap forward.
Over the years, the prospect of achieving clean energy through fusion has motivated a generation of scientists and engineers. They foresaw a future wherein the same principle used to release the destructive energy of a hydrogen bomb could instead be used under rigorously controlled laboratory conditions to power the world.
The lab has been co-managed by the University of California since its beginning in the early 1950s. Many of its staff members were educated in California. LLNL’s director, Kim Budil, earned her doctorate degree from UC Davis. She was one of the four highly accomplished women who announced this breakthrough in Washington.
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.
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