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 ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has conducted an experiment at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) to assess the ability of U.S ...

Shortly after 1 a.m. on the morning of Dec. 5, 2022, Dave Schlossberg, an experimental physicist at National Ignition Facility (NIF), was woken by a phone call. A fusion experiment using NIF’s massive ...

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 ...

Let’s start with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF)—arguably the largest, most ...

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 ...

How the world’s biggest laser smashed a nuclear-fusion record The US National Ignition Facility is the only laboratory where a nuclear-fusion reaction has generated more energy than it consumed.

Scientists at the world’s largest nuclear-fusion facility have achieved the phenomenon known as ignition—creating a nuclear reaction that generates more energy than it consumes. Results of the ...

Back in December of 2022, a team of researchers at the USA’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) announced that they had exceeded ‘scientific breakeven’ with their laser-based inertial confinement fusion ...

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 ...