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BBC News - Laser fusion test results raise energy hopes: The goal is to harness the power of the largest laser ever built to start "ignition" - effectively a carefully controlled thermonuclear explosion.
It is markedly different from current nuclear power, which operates through splitting atoms - fission - rather than squashing them together in fusion.
Proving that such a lab-based fusion reaction can release more energy than is required to start it - rising above the so-called breakeven point - could herald a new era in large-scale energy production.
Crossposted from Alex Mizell blog. You can comment here or there.