The National Ignition Facility, home of the first net-positive fusion reaction, is back with an even more powerful energy ...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Ignition Facility increased the yield of the experiment in recent attempts.

To answer that question, we have to take a look at inertial confinement fusion (ICF), which is the ... This is detailed in the following diagram from the Wikipedia entry on the NIF: Diagram ...

The National Ignition Facility (NIF), based at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has steadily increased the amount of energy produced in its ...

Researchers in the US have revealed that heat does not flow as expected between different materials when they are in a super-hot, ultra-dense state known as high-energy-density plasma. The experiment, ...

Therefore, hot plasma can be confined by strong magnetic fields. Inertial confinement fusion This approach is based on maximizing density by the rapid compression and heating of a small solid DT ...

announced that they had exceeded ‘scientific breakeven’ with their laser-based inertial confinement fusion (ICF) system. Their work has now been peer-reviewed and passed scrutiny, confirming ...