European nuclear fusion experiment announces 'record-breaking' results

Nuclear fusion powers the Sun. Pierre Longnus | The Image Bank | Getty Images Researchers working on a project centered around fusion energy - the process that powers stars - have hailed "record-breaking" results produced by a landmark experiment in the UK Engineers and scientists from the Eurofusion consortium were able to produce 59 megajoules of heat energy from fusion across a period of five seconds on Dec. 21, 2021. It surpasses a previous record from 1997, when 22 megajoules of heat energy was generated. The amount of energy produced by the experiment is not huge, however, with reports stating…