‘60 Minutes’ Covers Fusion Breakthrough

“From a machine, a star is born,” concluded the 13-minute segment on CBS News’ “60 Minutes” about the December breakthrough at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Viewers are treated to a walkthrough of the facility—the 192 lasers, using, briefly, 1,000 times the power of the national grid—and the actual target used for the successful ignition experiment was shown on camera. The nature of the recent breakthrough—its combination of electromagnetic and inertial confinement—was not addressed. The NIF would of course not be a model for a commercial power plant—in addition to needing much more efficient lasers, the effort to create thousands of targets per hour would be impossible. Look forward to an upcoming The LaRouche Organization interview with Paul Gallagher for more. (https://www.cbsnews.com/video/nuclear-fusion-60-minutes-video-2023-01-15/#x )