American researchers have made great progress in achieving the difficult goal of producing energy from nuclear fusion. The Department of Energy in the United States said in December that this was a major accomplishment. For the first time in decades of effort, scientists have achieved the feat of obtaining more energy from the process than what they had to input. How meaningful is this accomplishment? How close are we to achieving the much-desired aspiration of fusion energy production that would give an abundant supply of clean energy? Carolyn Kuranz, an associate professor of nuclear engineering at the University of Michigan, who was involved with the laboratory that recently set the fusion record, can elaborate on the achievement. Fusion is the process responsible for the energy of the Sun. This phrase refers to NASA’s presence on the Wikimedia Commons website. What occurred in the fusion room? Fusion is the merging of two atoms to form one or more new atoms with a slightly lower collective mass. The energy that is created is equal to the mass multiplied by the speed of light squared, as Einstein’s legendary equation, E = mc2300, outlines.
