Sunday, December 24, 2023

US nuclear-fusion lab enters new era: achieving ‘ignition’ over and over

Great news! Are we finally coming close to the holy grail of nuclear fusion energy on earth!

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"In December 2022, after more than a decade of effort and frustration, scientists at the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) announced that they had set a world record by producing a fusion reaction that released more energy than it consumed — a phenomenon known as ignition. They have now proved that the feat was no accident by replicating it again and again ...
The stadium-sized laser facility, housed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California, has unequivocally achieved its goal of ignition in four out of its last six attempts ...
The facility set a new record on 30 July when its beams delivered the same amount of energy to the target — 2.05 megajoules — but, this time, the implosion generated 3.88 megajoules of fusion energy, an 89% increase over the input energy. ..."

US nuclear-fusion lab enters new era: achieving ‘ignition’ over and over Researchers at the National Ignition Facility are consistently creating reactions that make more energy than they consume.


Modern art? Not quite. At the US National Ignition Facility in Livermore, California, 192 lasers (beamlines shown here) run into a target chamber (highlighted in blue) and focus on a capsule containing hydrogen isotopes. 




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