For the first time in history, net energy has been released from a controlled nuclear fusion reaction on Earth. This was achieved by the National Ignition Facility on the 5th of December 2022 using Inertial Confinement Fusion. This video will show you how they did it and what it really means.

Animations courtesy of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory:
@LivermoreLab

Sources:
https://www.iop.org/sites/default/fil...
https://www.nature.com/articles/239139a0
   • The Beamline to Ignition  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...
https://twitter.com/JB_Fusion/status/...

Thanks to the Fusion community on Reddit for the help!
r/Fusion

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