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Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm announced Tuesday that scientists at a federal research facility have achieved a history-making fusion energy breakthrough. The researchers, she said, achieved fusion ignition — more energy resulted from a fusion reaction than the energy used to start the reaction. "Simply put, this is one of the most impressive scientific feats of the 21st century," she said. In fusion, hydrogen atoms are pressed together with such force that they combine into helium and relea