Clean Energy Future Closer Than Ever With Latest Fusion Breakthrough | Gerrit Bruhaug | TMR

Gerrit Bruhaug joins Emma in discussing the developments in nuclear fusion technology. The National Ignition Facility (NIF) has made a major breakthrough in the field of nuclear fusion, a process that has the potential to provide a virtually limitless and clean energy source. In a recent experiment, the NIF team was able to achieve "ignition," a state in which the energy produced by the fusion reaction exceeds the energy required to initiate the reaction. This milestone marks the first time that ignition has been achieved using a laser-based system, and it is a significant step towards the development of a practical fusion energy source. Nuclear fusion has the potential to provide a clean and virtually limitless source of energy, as it produces no greenhouse gases and relies on readily available fuel sources. The NIF team's achievement is a promising development in the pursuit of a sustainable and reliable energy source for the future.

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And we are joined Now by Gerrit Bruhauga Ph.D. candidate at the University of Rochester. And he is here to explain the latest breakthrough in Fusion Energy and what it really means. Garrett thanks so much for coming on today. yeah happy to come on and explain it. Thanks. Yes. Where do you want me to jump in? So I was explaining to him briefly while we were setting up his shot. I'm a science Philistine in many respects. When I read about this I was incredibly excited right where the mainstream media reports on this fusion reaction were glowing. Government scientists have achieved this massive breakthrough. Can you explain what that means for our audience and then we can go through some of the more practical realities. Yeah so I guess going all the way back nuclear fusion is one of the two big nuclear reactions that we can use to get energy. Fission is what we use right now in reactors; it's where we split something heavy like uranium. My lights are actually currently being kept on by a fission reactor. So I'm glad that works. Fusion is what we would like to have in the future and maybe for like space and things like that's what powers the sun and it's also what powers hydrogen bombs which is part of the impetus for research on it. What happened at Lawrence Livermore National Labs last week is they achieved what we call ignition. You can argue they actually did it last year. but this year was the real official set point. There was what a scientist would consider and here's what the government said as a solid bar to make sure that no games were being played. And you can think of it like this: imagine we have a bonfire we want a light right? And we have some sort of new kind of super clean burning wood that we want to use. and we know from our young and Youthful and crazy days setting off nuclear bombs that if we use a flamethrower we can light the bonfire. But that's not really useful.