Researchers were able to produce 2.5 megajoules of energy, 120 per cent of the 2.1 megajoules used to power the experiment.
Now we must wait to see if this is an aberration and can be done at scale. I'm ready for the world to change :party-parrot-science:
Government workers got the goods, fuck you capitalism, great 'innovation' you have :fidel-salute:
We've had fusion bombs for ages. "But we've already got the bombs" is probably one of the reasons the nuclear funding dried up honestly.
true but they are all fission catalyzed fusion weapons. the holy grail is pure fusion weapons.
imagine this: pure fusion weapons would basically create an entirely new type of warfare. something using an advanced conventional explosive to create enough pressure to detonate pressurized fusion fuel without the fission explosion first. no uranium enrichment needed. likely fusion fuel could be made from water and a bit of lithium.
opens up nuclear weapons to basically every nation with even the smallest national research/engineering capabilities. because the bomb design will get out.
oh and if they finally crack the design now you have nuclear weapons capable of detonating with any yield you want as well as being built incredibly compact. no fallout only a single neutron burst means they will likely be used frequently since collateral damage is limited to the weapon's blast radius.