A a view from inside the OMEGA target chamber during a direct-drive inertial fusion experiment at the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics. Scientists fired 28 kilojoules of laser ...

Scientists from the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) have demonstrated what they call an effective “spark plug” for direct-drive methods of inertial confinement fusion ...

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Oil prices are spiking again, this time because of the war unfolding in the Middle East. What would happen, however, if we could end our reliance on oil for good? People have been ...

The world’s only net-positive fusion experiment has been steadily ramping up the amount of power it produces, TechCrunch has learned. In recent attempts, the team at the U.S. Department of Energy’s ...

Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research underpins the ongoing quest to replicate the nuclear fusion processes that power the stars within a controlled laboratory environment. By using intense ...

Physicists are teasing a potential leap in nuclear fusion that sounds almost absurd on its face: a path to reactions that are “billion times” more efficient by swapping today’s ultra-short, ...

The Memorandum of Understanding was signed in Rome during a two-day international discussion on innovation and the role of research and technology transfer in the energy transition. ROME, ITALY / ...

Companies are looking to commercialize advances made by federally supported research labs in the quest for boundless energy. By Kenneth Chang Take a smidgen of hydrogen, then blast it with lasers to ...