The company raised $425 million in January 2025, around the same time that it turned on Polaris, a prototype reactor. Helion ...

Nature does not give up her secrets easily.” Such are the sentiments of NIF Senior Scientist John Lindl, summarizing the ...

Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF): A technique for achieving nuclear fusion by rapidly compressing and heating fuel capsules with high-energy beams or lasers. Vlasov–Fokker–Planck ...

2024 winning paper: Inertial Confinement Fusion The experiments detailed in the paper were carried out at Lawrence Livermore’s National Laboratory (LLNL). For the last six decades, this laboratory, ...

“If we could not ignite capsules in the laboratory, you could not see a pathway to an inertial confinement fusion energy plant,” she said. “So this was a necessary first step. ...

Starting June 1, 2025, Dr. Jonas Ohland, laser physicist at GSI/FAIR, will lead the young investigator group ALADIN (Adaptive Laser Architecture Development and INtegration). For this purpose, he ...

As Xcimer accelerates hiring overall, Denver-based fusion company welcomes Dr. Silvia De Dea, who helped build the most complex machines humans have ever built De Dea’s expertise includes ...

On May 22, the latest experimental campaign concluded at the world's most powerful nuclear fusion device of the stellarator type. Through collaboration between researchers from Europe and the U.S ...

Murakami has been studying nuclear fusion for 40 years and believes that “this method will be used for fast ignition of laser fusion”. However, he says, its potential uses go far beyond this. Proton ...