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Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Stems From Bay Area Lab

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Even in Silicon Valley, where we hear about amazing innovations every day, this one is raising eyebrows. 

A new way to create energy that's clean, safe, and hopefully, plentiful and cracking the code happened in the Bay Area. 

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Specifically, at the Lawrence Livermore National Labs, where 192 lasers were fired into a cylinder, creating energy. Significantly, more energy than it took to create it. It's a process called fusion.

Business and Tech Reporter Scott Budman has the full story in the video player above.

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