Working with two magnetic fields and a laser, all at low points of their power outputs, Sandia’s Z machine has released neutrons in an amount surprisingly close to ‘break-even... Read more
Unfortunately, it is very difficult to get a fusion reaction going. Inspired by the space physics behind solar flares and the aurora, a team of researchers from the University of Michigan an... Read more
Machinery of an Energy Dream Fusion, the process that powers the sun, is the forever dream of energy scientists — safe, nonpolluting and almost boundless. Even here at Lawrence Livermore Nat... Read more
The secrets to its success are lasers, magnets and a big pinch The Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico discharges the most intense pulses of electrical current on Earth.... Read more
Cheap, practical fusion may be closer than you think. Nuclear fusion is 30 years away, and always will be. That’s the refrain we’ve heard, again and again for decades. And yet, q... Read more
Researchers at a US lab have passed a crucial milestone on the way to their ultimate goal of achieving self-sustaining nuclear fusion. Harnessing fusion – the process that powers the S... Read more
Not Quite Yet, but in the Journal “Physics of Plasmas,” Researchers from National Ignition Facility Show Just How Close We’ve Come The dream of igniting a self-sustained fu... Read more