On December 5, 2022, the National Ignition Facility in the U.S. achieved ignition by creating more energy via nuclear fusion than they originally put in. Now, a series of details focuses on how that ...

A collaborative effort between researchers at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences led to the deployment of a simulation code on a nuclear fusion collision model that ...

While the scientific community has been recently focused on the feasibility of an alleged room-temperature superconductor, U.S. scientists revealed this week that they have successfully recreated a ...

Nuclear fusion is a process in which atomic nuclei combine to form a heavier nucleus, releasing a large amount of energy in the process, according to Einstein’s famous equation, E=mc^2. Scientists at ...

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) today announced that the National Ignition Facility (NIF) recently completed its first integrated ...

Radiochemistry experts at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) recently made the first experimental measurements of ...

The U.S. Department of Energy announced Tuesday morning that scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved net energy gain in a fusion reaction, a vaunted goal in humankind’s quest for ...

LIVERMORE, Calif. -- Sandia National Laboratories researchers are the first to directly measure hydroperoxyalkyl radicals -- a class of reactive molecules denoted as "QOOH" -- that are key in the ...

Researchers have directly measure hydroperoxyalkyl radicals -- a class of reactive molecules denoted as 'QOOH' -- that are key in the chain of reactions that controls the early stages of combustion ...