Longview Fusion Energy, a firm leveraging the recent fusion breakthrough at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), has secured a contract with engineering, procurement, and construction specialist ...

HB11 is approaching nuclear fusion from an entirely new angle, using high power, high precision lasers instead of hundred-million-degree temperatures to start the reaction. Its first demo has produced ...

HIBEF provides insights into the structure of materials and into very fast natural processes, such as those that take place in samples of warm dense matter. A promising option for creating a ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Since the 1950s, scientists have quested to bring nuclear fusion ...

An experiment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL’s) National Ignition Facility (NIF) appears to have approached fusion ignition as it recreated the extreme temperatures and pressures at ...

This month the media was abuzz with the announcement that the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) had accomplished a significant breakthrough in the quest to achieve commercial nuclear fusion.

Even scientists who were skeptical of work at the National Ignition Facility called the results a success. By Kenneth Chang Scientists have come tantalizingly close to reproducing the power of the sun ...

More than € 5 bn of funding is to be ploughed into the world's two high-power laser facilities for nuclear fusion. In the US, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) project is set to receive almost € 3 ...