Nuclear fusion milestone creates "burning plasma" for the first time

https://newatlas.com/energy/nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-burning-plasma-first-time/

"using 192 lasers housed inside a 10-story building to deliver 1.9 megajoules of ultraviolet energy onto a fuel capsule roughly the size of a ball bearing... causes separate atoms to fuse into helium, a reaction that releases vast amount of energy...  to have the fusion reactions become the primary source of heat instead... a burning plasma state where more fusion energy is emitted from the fuel than was required to initiate the fusion reactions, or the amount of work done on the fuel”

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