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Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times (www.cnn.com)
submitted 11 months ago by Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] wosat@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

While this is amazing and all, it's always seemed to me that this approach of using hundreds of laser beams focused on a single point would never scale to be viable for power generation. Can any experts here confirm?

I've always assumed this approach was just useful as a research platform -- to learn things applicable to other approaches, such as tokamaks, or to weapons applications.

[โ€“] zaphod@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

The NIF was founded to research nuclear explosions without the nuclear explosions after nuclear bomb tests were banned. It was never designed for power generation, if you want to do that you build a huge tokamak like ITER.