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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

On July 5th, the scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF) fired the most powerful laser shot ever, exceeding 500 terawatts using 192 beams of ...

The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has created the brightest X-ray source to date, by directing the laser of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) onto ultra-light metal foams. Reported ...

The US National Ignition Facility is the only laboratory where a nuclear-fusion reaction has generated more energy than it consumed. Here’s how it achieved this historic milestone and sparked fresh ...