#403: Fusion Ignition Breakthrough and Python

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

Technology

4.8 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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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.

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0:00.0	Imagine a world with free and unlimited clean energy.
0:03.8	That's the musings of a great science fiction story, isn't it?
0:07.3	But nuclear fusion, the kind that powers the sun, has always been close at hand.
0:11.9	We see the sun every day and yet impossibly far away as a technology.
0:16.2	However, we took a major step towards this becoming a reality
0:19.8	when the folks at the Lawrence-Levelmore National Laboratory in the U.S. achieved ignition, where they got significantly more energy out than they put in.
0:28.3	And Python played a major role in this research and experiment.
0:31.7	We have Jay Solmanson here to give us a look at the science and the Python code of this discovery.
0:37.2	Also, I've linked a five-minute
0:38.6	YouTube video explaining the details and showing this massive machine that they used. It's worth
0:44.8	watching before you listen further. This is Talk Python to Me. Episode 403 recorded February 1st,
0:51.1	2023. February 1st, 2023.
1:08.8	Welcome to Talk Python, a weekly podcast on Python.
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