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 ...

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 ...

The Mianyang center surpasses the size of the American National Ignition Facility (NIF). With an experimental bay 50% larger, it could become the world's largest laser fusion site. The four laser ...

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 ...

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 ...

a researcher at U.S.-based independent research organization CNA Corp. It is a similar layout to the $3.5 billion U.S. National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Northern California, which in 2022 ...

The US has long been a leader. The National Ignition Facility in California, which also uses laser-ignition technology, made ...

In addition to the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California, only five other facilities, all of which are smaller than the American lab, currently use laser beams to study this type of reaction: ...