Both of these laser systems failed to achieve ignition and only got middling results, mostly due to variations in the laser beam’s irradiation. Despite a funding crunch for fusion research in ...

As it turns out, though, the benefits of making such a switch are so great that perhaps within the next decade we can expect laser-ignition systems to become commonplace in a wide range of ...

The laser energy fuses the hydrogen together to create a burst of energy in a process called ignition. Nuclear fusion offers ...

If it looks like the set of some Hollywood sci-fi show, perhaps that's fitting, because what they are doing here is making stars on Earth. "We are able to make miniature stars, 'cause fusion is the ...

Lithium-6 is a crucial material for nuclear fusion reactors, but isolating it is challenging – now researchers have found a ...

These new results are encouraging for the indirect-drive approach to laser fusion, and especially so for predictive capability for the design of future ignition experiments. Ensuring that a beam ...

Back in December of 2022, a team of researchers at the USA’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) announced that they had exceeded ‘scientific breakeven’ with their laser-based inertial ...