The initiative, called ICONIC-FL (International Cooperation on Next-gen Inertial Confinement Fusion Lasers), aims to target one of fusion’s greatest challenges, which is taking lasers from one-off ...
Researchers working with China’s "artificial sun," have discovered a method to push past a long-standing physical limit in ...
(via Sabine Hossenfelder) In February, the US’s National Ignition Facility fired off its seventh laser shot, generating a record-breaking amount of energy for a laser-ignited fusion reaction. Can ...
A new partnership between Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ...
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) say they have reached a milestone in combining AI with fusion target design by deploying AI agents on two supercomputers to automate and ...
Commercial laser-based fusion energy plants could be rolled out at scale by 2040, if a host of challenges faced by manufacturers of laser diodes and large-scale optics can be met in the meantime. That ...