The National Ignition Facility, home of the first net-positive fusion reaction, is back with an even more powerful energy ...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Ignition Facility increased the yield of the experiment in recent attempts.

End of 2022, researchers at the NIF succeeded in generating more energy with a fusion reaction than they put into it. Now there are new records.

In February, the US’s National Ignition Facility fired off its seventh laser shot, generating a record-breaking amount of energy for a laser-ignited fusion reaction. Ca ...

The National Ignition Facility (NIF), based at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has steadily increased the amount of energy produced in its ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is pursuing funding to increase the laser fusion power at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) from 2.2 ...

From assembly to first plasma in just two years is remarkably fast, but Song Yuntao—the project’s chief engineer from the ...

Nuclear fusion technology promises abundant clean energy with no planet-warming gases or risk of highly radioactive waste. Research in this field has been ongoing for decades but has picked up pace in ...

Recent fusion breakthroughs have generated interest from investors like Sam Altman and Bill Gates—along with some unrealistic ...

Researchers have made a leap forward in the pursuit of clean, endless energy. A team at General Atomics, a U.S. Department of ...

With Taiwan officially phasing out nuclear power, attention is turning to next-generation alternatives such as small modular ...