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welcome everyone. it s great to see members of congress here and senator reed, so glad you are here. thank you so much thank you always so much for your support of this and i know there are others who are supportive as well but could not make it but this is a great day. today we are here to talk about fusion combining two particles into one. last week at the national laboratory in california scientist at the facility achieved fusion ignition. that is creating more energy from fusion reactions and the energy used to start the process. the first time it has ever been done in a laboratory anywhere in the world. simply put, this is one of the most impressive scientific feats of the 21st century. as the president might say. [applause] i think he did say this is a bsd. [laughter] researchers at livermore and around the world have been working on this moment for more than 60 years. so what does this accomplishment do? first it strengthens our national security because it ope ....