Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough! How does it WORK?

More Lessons: http://www.MathAndScience.com Twitter:   / jasongibsonmath   In this lesson, you will learn about the very recent breakthrough in nuclear fusion research. The Lawrence Livermore National lab's National Ignition Facility just demonstrated fusion ignition whereby more energy was released from the fusion reaction than was absorbed by the laser ignition process. In this facility, 192 lasers, the most power lasers in the world, converge on a single fuel pellet of deuterium and tritium. The intense burst of energy causes the pellet to go into a plasma state, and the pressure and temperature cause the nuclei to fuse together. The resulting energy released is then absorbed by adjacent nuclei and the process continues. This is the first time any fusion experiment has achieved net positive energy output.