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Nuclear fusion breakthrough achieved by U.S. scientists, unlocking potential for clean and limitless energy. Details inside

For the first time, scientists demonstrated burning plasma in the laboratory, in what is a crucial step towards achieving practically limitless fusion energy.

Now its virtue testing, thanks to the worlds lampest laser at lawrence livermore national laboratory. it generates temperatures and pressures found only in stars and in nuclear weapons. >> this is an actual target and its actual size. >> reporter: that little red thing. >> and little red thing in the smild where the isotopes of hydrogen sit there and get ready to be blown to bits. >> reporter: so how does this little tiny target explain how a nuclear weapon is functioning or isnt? >> we can mode...

>> reporter: that little red thing? >> the little red thing in the middle and thats where the isotopes get ready to be blown to bits. >> reporter: so how does this little tiny target explain how a nuclear weapon is functioning or isnt? >> because we can model different parts of the physical processes that go on inside a nuclear weapon, without testing. >> reporter: this is the heart of the operation, its the control room. and right now, this team is getting ready for a laser experiment later on ...