Back in December of 2022, a team of researchers at the USA’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) announced that they had exceeded ‘scientific breakeven’ with their laser-based inertial confinement fusion (ICF) system. Their work has now been peer-reviewed and passed scrutiny, confirming that the energy put into fusing a small amount of deuterium-tritium fuel resulted in a net gain (Q) of 1.5.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/02/09/nifs-laser-fusion-experiments-energy-gain-passes-peer-review/