In a first, U.S. scientists have created “net energy” through a nuclear fusion reaction, the Department of Energy announced Tuesday. The successful experiment, which took place Dec. 5 at ...
Scientists at the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) have produced fusion reactions that released more energy than they ...
Long hailed as an impossibility, harnessing nuclear fusion to power homes, businesses, cars and even airplanes is now widely viewed by scientists and engineers as a very real prospect that would ...
A major breakthrough has happened at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, where scientists have successfully produced a nuclear fusion ...
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I am a chemical engineer covering the energy sector. Last month the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National ...
Early this month, South Korea’s KFE (Korean Institute of Fusion Energy) announced it had sustained the kind of high ...
Earlier this month, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) announced to the world that they had achieved a record 1.3 MJ yield from a fusion experiment at their National Ignition Facility ...
U.S. scientists have achieved “ignition” — a fusion reaction that produced more energy than it took to create — a critical milestone for nuclear fusion and a step forward in the pursuit of ...
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I am an economist focused on the economics of regulation. Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California have made an ...
On the morning of December 13, while people were preparing for the end of year festivities, directors of the US Department of Energy in Washington, DC, held a press conference to announce what they ...
Nuclear fusion occurs naturally in the core of stars, but reproducing the process in a research facility has its challenges. Nuclear fuel must be kept at elevated temperatures (at least 100 ...