#403: Fusion Ignition Breakthrough and Python

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Imagine a world with free and unlimited clean energy. That's the musings of a great science fiction story. But nuclear fusion (the kind that powers the sun) has always been close at hand, we see the sun every day, and yet impossibly far away as a technology. We took a major step towards this becoming a reality with the folks at the Lawrence Livermore National Labratory in the US achieved "ignition" where they got significantly more energy out than they put in. And Python played a major role in this research and experiment. We have Jay Salmonson here to give us a look at the science and the Python code of this discovery. I've also linked to a 5-minute YouTube video explaining all the tooling of this massive machine. If you have the time, it's worth watching before listening further. Full episode show notes at https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/403/fusion-ignition-breakthrough-and-python