A multibillion-dollar project is set to be constructed in China, the country's latest move in a push for nuclear energy.

Wanted: good eyes and steady hands. When Derek Schmidt applied for a job at Los Alamos National Laboratory’s target fabrication facility more than 20 years ago, it wasn’t his electrical engineering ...

Recently-released satellite imagery appears to show a research compound containing four large laser bays organized around one "target ... site known as the National Ignition Facility in California ...

Earlier this month, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) announced to the world that they had achieved a record 1.3 MJ yield from a fusion experiment at their National Ignition Facility ...

Target chamber at the National Ignition Facility of LLNL in 2008. Summarized, the stages in ICF to achieve fusion involve heating up the surface of the fusion target, causing the resulting plasma ...

Scientists are conducting experiments to generate clean energy through fusion, the same sub-atomic reaction that powers our Sun, with the aim of constructing plants that produce more energy than they ...

“The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore ... “Now, we are evolving the targets, lasers, and facility design to move from scientific proof to continuous laser-driven fusion energy ...