The National Ignition Facility (NIF) -- a laser test facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. -- is the world's most powerful laser. Though it faces fiscal ...

After a “breakthrough” in nuclear fusion research was announced this week, The Verge had a conversation with physicist Tammy Ma about the work that led to the breakthrough and what comes next.

In a groundbreaking experiment, Lawrence Livermore's National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California, USA, has generated a neutron yield of nearly 3×10 15, equivalent to 8kJ of neutron energy.In ...

American scientists attempt to 'create a sun on Earth' using nuclear fusion.

The experiment more than doubled NIF's previous energy record and demonstrated the viability of using fusion to support the National Nuclear Security Administration's Stockpile Stewardship Program ...

The NIF uses what’s known as inertial confinement to produce fusion reactions. At the facility, fusion fuel is coated in diamond and then encased in a small gold cylinder called a hohlraum.

China’s Fusion Facility Is 50% Larger than Its American Counterpart. The new center in Mianyang, as revealed through satellite images analyzed and published by Reuters, is designed to be “50% ...