European researchers have brought the prospect of virtually limitless nuclear energy closer to reality by breaking the fusion power record by nearly a factor of three at the U.K.'s Joint European Torus facility near Oxford, England.
Generating 59 megajoules of sustained energy—averaging 11 MW over five seconds—confirms the line of development now in process at the world's largest fusion research project, called ITER, that is now under construction in France, program researchers claim.