Times of Trenton guest opinion column
by Michael Zarnstorff
“Twenty years ago, on the night of Dec. 9, 1993, the world changed. Shortly after 11 p.m., scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) reproduced a piece of the sun on Earth. We generated more than 3 million watts of power using fusion, the energy source of stars, in laboratory experiments fueled by equal amounts of the hydrogen isotopes…