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• Moreover, the fuel many facilities use to power their reactions is very expensive.And while many call fusion green energy, it still produces nuclear waste, albeit less long-lived than fission reactors.Plus, countries are racing to adopt clean energy and limit global warming by 2035..
• That date is likely too soon for the widespread use of fusion energy.There's still quite a gap between the age of ignition and the age of fusion power..
• It takes a lot of energy to power those lasers.When NIF achieved ignition in 2022, it was a landmark experiment more than 70 years in the making..
• And France is working on an even larger reactor — ITER — that, when finished, will stand nearly 100 feet tall.JT-60SA and ITER are the next generation of fusion reactors..
• "The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore had a major breakthrough in December 2022 when, for the first time ever, it achieved "ignition..
• US scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Lab have entered what they're calling the "age of ignition..