National Ignition Facility’s laser-fusion milestone ignites debate
18 Sep 2022
After failing to reproduce last year’s record-breaking fusion-energy shot, scientists at the US National Ignition Facility have gone back to the drawing board. Edwin Cartlidge discusses their next steps
One hit wonder?
A record-breaking shot at the National Ignition Facility in 2021 that yielded 1.37 MJ has not been reproduced. (Courtesy: LLNL)
On 8 August last year, physicists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US used the w
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