192 Laser Plasma Compression Fusion Device
"On Dec. 5, a team at LLNL’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) conducted the first controlled fusion experiment in history to reach this milestone, also known as scientific energy breakeven, meaning it produced more energy from fusion than the laser energy used to drive it. This first-of-its-kind feat will provide unprecedented capability to support NNSA’s Stockpile Stewardship Program and will provide invaluable insights into the prospects of clean fusion energy, which would be a game-changer for efforts to achieve President Biden’s goal of a net-zero carbon economy."
https://www.llnl.gov/news/national-ignition-facility-achieves-fusion-ignition
"this latest fusion burst still didn’t produce enough energy to run the laser power supplies and other systems of the NIF experiment"
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-energy
"The fact that the latest experiment produced a little more energy than it consumed means that for a brief moment, the reaction must have been able to sustain itself, using its own energy to fuse further hydrogen atoms instead of relying on the heat from the lasers."
https://www.space.com/nuclear-fusion-breaktrough
"The reaction started and finished in about as long as it takes to blink your eyes and temperatures were roughly ten times hotter than the temperature of the sun, Livermore scientists said in a news conference."
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/fusion-breakthrough-net-energy-gain-rcna61326
"The challenge, however, has been recreating the conditions that allow fusion to occur, including extreme pressures and temperatures exceeding 100 million degrees Celsius."
https://michiganadvance.com/2022/12/13/scientists-announce-a-fusion-breakthrough-with-big-implications-for-clean-energy/
"In the nuclear fusion power tests, scientists directed these laser beams towards a fuel-containing capsule in a special container called a hohlraum. Exposed to such intense energy, the target generates plasma—an electrically charged gas.
Fusion reactions occur in this gas, providing the heat necessary for further fusion to occur. In principle, at least."
https://www.newsweek.com/nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-worlds-biggest-laser-1673898
"it would take many capsules exploding over and over to produce enough energy to feed the power grid. "You'd have to do this many, many times a second," McBride says. NIF can currently do around one laser "shot" a week."
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/13/1142208055/nuclear-fusion-breakthrough-climate-change
"a “Plasma Compression Fusion Device” in 2019, it was either a giant breakthrough – or mad science. According to the patent application, the miniature device could contain and sustain fusion reactions capable of generating power in the gigawatt (1 billion watts) to terawatt (1 trillion watts) range or more."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2021/02/08/what-is-behind-the-us-navys-ufo-fusion-energy-patent/?sh=47ffc1224733