Another non-event article written by a questionable source.

Article states that there is no risk of meltdown, as if that is the only risk. The reason fusion has not yet worked for 75 years is that its either a bomb that is completely uncontrollable, or it is created by a simulation of the conditions that happen when a bomb goes off - which requires a massive amount of energy from another source, if it isn't coming from the fusion explosion itself.

So the real danger is a massive explosion, not a meltdown. Downplaying that is dishonest. (And I would not buy land within 100 miles of Lawrence Livermore, or a thousand miles downwind.)

The article immediately discredits itself as scientifically invalid by asserting that not producing CO2 is a good thing, as the World levels of atmospheric CO2 move lower than they have been in the history of the World, and potentially threatens the loss of all plant life, which feeds us and provides the Oxygen that we breathe.

The authors admit that they can't publish the value of Q yet, which is the excess energy supposedly produced. Claiming a "breakthrough" without proof is ridiculous.

This has all the hallmarks of several prior claims of successful fusion power production, which proved to be false, and places it in the bad company of "Cold Fusion," the debacle of respected scientists claiming to have produced fusion without heat, and being utterly discredited.

And it has the hallmarks of a political boondoggle of massive funds with no accountability.

Give them a hundred years to figure it out and it may provide the power for the White/Alqubierre warp drive.

The zap produces 3 MJoules of energy. It takes the lasers an hour to cool for the next zap. This power plant produces a mighty 1000 Watts of power. That's enough power to power 1 gamestation.

The power/$ of this power plant is more than 100 times worse than for a coal plant.

The energy gain factor is 1.5.

Way not enough. You need a gain of at least 10. The heat energy produced must be converted to electrical power for the lasers.

Laser fusion will never yield practical power, and NIF knows it.

If the phonies promoting the climate change fear BSwill let them.

Maybe, lets see what comes of it before we open the really good Champagne.

Fusion has been ten years away for decades now. I'm glad this is the last decade.