Useful, cost-effective nuclear fusion remains a distant dream, despite a small step in the right direction from the government's NIF reactor.

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The 2021 run signaled that ignition could be achieved within the NIF reactor. To finally cross the threshold, NIF researchers made a few minor tweaks, which included operating at slightly higher ...

Japan's experimental nuclear fusion reactor is up and running. JT-60SA is currently the most powerful experimental fusion reactor in operation. It's a different device than NIF's, which had a ...

Nature does not give up her secrets easily.” Such are the sentiments of NIF Senior Scientist John Lindl, summarizing the ...

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have achieved nuclear fusion ignition—a scientific energy breakeven. Here’s what you need to know.

Another issue is that the NIF reactor can fire only once, for a few billionths of a second, before it has to spend several hours cooling its components in order to be switched on once more.

The Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak (BEST) nuclear fusion reactor being built in Heifei, China, is in the final phase of its assembly and on track for completion by 2027. When ...

In this context, if we look at the NIF’s 3.15 MJ, it should be clear that we have not suddenly entered the age of commercial nuclear fusion reactors, nor that we’re on the verge of one.

Of the energy NIF pulls from the electrical grid for each firing, about 1 percent is converted into laser light. The lasers are also only able to fire about 10 times a week.

Tech giant Google has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) to buy at least 200 MW of energy from CFS's planned ...

In the cladding of a typical fusion reactor, each atom might be displaced about 100 times over the reactor's lifetime. Plasma flows within the target chamber at the National Ignition Facility (NIF).