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 ...

Satellite imagery has revealed that China is building a massive laser-driven nuclear fusion facility in Mianyang, a move that ...

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 ...

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

Laser fusion research ... amount of power designers estimate is needed to apply to the target to achieve ignition, said Omar Hurricane, chief scientist for the inertial confinement fusion program ...