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.

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 ...

The technique used at NIF, known as inertial confinement fusion, is one of two primary ideas being explored for the creation of a fusion energy source. The other, known as magnetic confinement ...

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 ...

There are two approaches to achieving fusion in the lab: inertial confinement fusion, which uses powerful lasers, and ...

Harnessing fusion, the process that powers the Sun, could provide a limitless, clean energy source. In a process called inertial confinement fusion, 192 beams from NIF's laser - the highest-energy ...

There is no tokamak in NIF’s successful experiment. Instead, NIF uses a type of reaction called inertial confinement fusion. This relies on taking a tiny pellet of hydrogen fuel, typically the ...