Fusion energy: US scientists reveal step advancing goal of fusion power
Science and technology hurdles mean commercialization is probably not five or six decades away but sooner, according to Kimberly Budil.
Technicians use a service system lift to access the target chamber interior for inspection and maintenance at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), a laser-based inertial confinement fusion research device, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory federal research facility in Livermore, California(photo credit: Philip Saltonstall/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory/Handout via REUTERS)