The National Ignition Facility at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has recorded the biggest temperature and energy increase ever with a magnetised fusion experiment.journal, revealing its unique experimental setup increased the temperature of a so-called “hotspot” by 40%. It produced over three times the amount of energy of previous experiments.
The NIF’s fusion experiments initiate fusion reactions by shooting around 200 lasers at a tiny pellet of fuel made of heavier isotopes of hydrogen — like deuterium and tritium — to form “hotspots”. NIF senior scientist John Moody told Vice’s Motherboard that the magnetic field acted like a type of insulator.
“When we go in, and we put the magnetic field on this hotspot, and we insulate it, now that heat stays in there, and so we’re able to get the hot spot to a higher temperature,” he continued.
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