The target chamber at the National Ignition Facility has been the site of a number of breakthroughs in fusion physics. U.S. Department of Energy/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Fusion is a ...

For the first time in history, scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility, or NIF, achieved a net energy gain through nuclear fusion, a crucial breakthrough ...

The U.S. Department of Energy announced Tuesday morning that scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved net energy gain in a fusion reaction, a vaunted goal in humankind’s quest for ...

In 2022, the Lawrence Livermore National Lab had a major fusion energy breakthrough. In the year since, the lab has reached ignition three more times. While the research could one day lead to fusion ...

The colliding planar shock (CPS) platform should deliver precise measurements of the characteristics of warm dense matter (WDM), a state of matter exhibiting properties of both solids and plasmas.

In December, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory made headlines worldwide. Scientists at the NIF performed the first ...

“Last week at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, scientists at the National Ignition Facility achieved fusion ignition. That is creating more energy from fusion reactions than ...

Amazon Web Services is teaming up with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory — home to the world’s only facility to achieve fusion ignition — to develop artificial intelligence tools to advance the ...

In late 2022, scientists at the National Ignition Facility claimed to have achieved an important fusion energy milestone with their laser-powered reactor: getting more energy out than they put in. Now ...

In some ways, scientists at the Department of Energy’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) have been a bit down and out. The $3.5 billion facility was designed to replicate the atom-smashing reactions ...

A massive facility under construction in Mianyang, China, has sparked global interest—and concern. Recently spotted by U.S. spy satellites, the structure is estimated to be 50 percent larger than the ...