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 ...

The NT Times had a recent article discussing laser nuclear fusion. Nextbigfuture has spoken with all of the nuclear fusion companies listed in the NY Times article as they all attended the 2023 ...

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)’s National Ignition Facility has set a new record for laser energy, firing 2.2 megajoules of energy for the first time on an ignition target. This ...

The attainment of fusion ignition and energy gain on the world’s most energetic laser late last year was indisputably a major scientific accomplishment. But the road to fusion as a viable source of ...

Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have created the world's brightest X-ray source, which has surpassed the intensity of previous sources by twofold. This breakthrough could ...

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

For all the heady talk about the misleadingly “deific,” recently confirmed quantum specks named after a Scottish physicist, another kind of historic event has transpired: in a shot fired on July 5, a ...

Image of the Crab Nebula, a remnant of a supernova explosion. Scientists are studying the extreme environments in supernovae to understand where the heavy elements came from. Credit: NASA Image of the ...

Engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) giant Fluor Corp. will serve as an engineering and construction partner to design and plan laser fusion power plants developed by Longview Fusion ...