US Lab Achieves Fusion Ignition in Repeat of Breakthrough Experiment

📆 7/8/2023 5:07 pm
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For a second time since its landmark fusion event in 2022, the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) has squeezed enough energy out of a diamond capsule packed with hydrogen to keep the fusion reaction running.

in 2022, the US National Ignition Facility has squeezed enough energy out of a diamond capsule packed with hydrogen to keep the fusion reaction running.

Based at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory near San Francisco, the NIF's experimental fusion program uses some of the world's most powerful lasers to force hydrogen atoms into new configurations, leaving spare change in energy.

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