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‘Important day’: US celebrates fusion energy breakthrough

Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm announces the major breakthrough in fusion research [J Scott Applewhite/AP Photo]

The United States has announced that scientists have made a breakthrough in fusion energy, in what officials called a “milestone” that has the potential to one day become a boundless source of clean energy.

At a press conference on Tuesday, US officials said that scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California had produced more energy in a fusion reaction, the process that powers the sun and the stars, for the first time.

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