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 ...

At fusion time, scientists fire finely tuned laser beams at the hohlraum—in NIF’s case, 192 beams in all—energizing the cylinder enough to evoke violent X-rays within.

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.

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

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 ...

When the experiment begins, 192 high-powered lasers converge on the hohlraum, ... Subsequent experiments in October 2023 saw NIF achieve fusion ignition for the third time, ...

The quest for energy production from controlled nuclear fusion reactions has been ongoing for many decades. Here, the inertial confinement fusion approach, based on heating and compressing a fuel ...

It may look like a stadium or factory, but this building could contain the answer to safe renewable energy of the future. Here at The National Ignition Facility in Livermore, California ...