N-fusion: The clean energy the world needs, but may not get soon enough | Latest News India

In the quest for perfecting the science of nuclear fusion in practice (the theory is well understood), the energy produced has never matched the energy that has gone into the effort. Until now, going by media reports.

There is much excitement around the US energy department’s expected announcement of a “major scientific breakthrough” on Tuesday, which follows reports, first by the Financial Times and then by several other publications and news agencies, that the California-based Lawrence Livermore National Library (LLNL) has achieved a “net energy gain” from a fusion reactor.

While an energy output higher than the input would be a breakthrough in scientific terms, the question that…