Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times::Scientists in California make a significant step in what could one day be an important solution to the global climate crisis, driven primarily by burning fossil fuels.
@Funkytom467 no, JET was doing power plant research.
NIF is studying detonation of fusion explosions. The only other way to do this is to set off a thermonuclear bomb, which the US has signed international treaties promising not to do, and which is trivially easily detected from the other side of the world.
Yes i immediately deleted my answer after i saw i confused the two. My bad, i wasn’t aware of NIF before.
(Gonna go ahead and start looking it up some more…)