Comment on Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times

• goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  @Funkytom467 no, JET was doing power plant research.

  NIF is studying detonation of fusion explosions. The only other way to do this is to set off a thermonuclear bomb, which the US has signed international treaties promising not to do, and which is trivially easily detected from the other side of the world.

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  • Funkytom467@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes i immediately deleted my answer after i saw i confused the two. My bad, i wasn’t aware of NIF before.

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