ZPEnergy.com - Sandia National Laboratories reports controlled fusion

A write up is available at the New York Times (free registration required) and a slashdot article includes other stories and a discussion.

I love it that the Times article talks about Fusion as a clean alternative to fission power right before they say that the fusion is confirmed by the detection of neutrons. Even better

Eventually, to generate electricity, the Sandia scientists envision surrounding the fusion chamber with a liquid that heats up by absorbing the neutrons generated by the fusion reaction. The hot liquid would boil water to turn a turbine.

Now that sounds clean. I think the NYT Science editors had their irony completely burnt out writing credulous copy of Harvard Nurses junk epidemiology and global warming hype.