Earlier this month, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) announced to the world that they had achieved a record 1.3 MJ yield from a fusion experiment at their National Ignition Facility (NIF) ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF) is the hottest place on Earth for the briefest of moments during an experiment. Now, it can be one of the brightest places ...

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 (DOE) and DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has announced the achievement of fusion ignition at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) -- a ...

“I would like to congratulate the dedicated researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, as well as their partners at Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories, ...

As Earth steadily warms, the search for alternate forms of clean energy is heating up with it. On Tuesday, the California-based Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the U.S. Department of ...

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 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 ...

PITTSBURGH—After decades of inertial confinement fusion research, a record yield of more than 1.3 megajoules (MJ) from fusion reactions was achieved in the laboratory for the first time during an ...

Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy will announce a breakthrough in nuclear fusion later today. The achievement came at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), a $3.5 billion laser complex at ...

The National Ignition Facility (NIF) has announced the results of its latest laser firing experiment, and said that it marks a significant milestone on its path to fusion ignition. Located at ...