Scientists and engineers have announced a record-breaking achievement of sustained fusion, which researchers say demonstrates the potential of nuclear fusion power plant designs. Although nuclear fusion has been long recognized as totally carbon- and by-product-free and the source atoms in hydrogen are abundant on Earth, replicating the Sun’s natural processes of fusion energy generation on Earth has been a challenge. That’s because this fusion needs to take place at extremely high temperatures that create hot plasma and because researchers have struggled to obtain more energy from those plasmas than the energy input to run them. Now researchers from the EUROfusion consortium more than doubled previous records at the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Joint European Torus (JET) site in Oxford using the same fuel mixture to be used by commercial fusion energy power plants, the UK government said on Wednesday. JET produced a total of 59 Megajoules of heat energy […]