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This Tuesday (Nov. 13th), the US Department of Energy and its National Nuclear Security Administration announced the first-ever achievement of fusion ignition. The breakthrough should reportedly "pave the way for advancements in national defense and the future of clean power."In the fusion process, two light nuclei combine to form a single heavier nucleus, releasing a large amount of energy. This is what was achieved – for the first time in a laboratory setting – on Dec. 5th at the US Department of Energy's Lawrence…

For the first time, researchers have created a fusion reaction that resulted in a net energy gain. The results, from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, mark a significant step on the very long road toward generating clean energy from nuclear fusion. “Last week, lo and behold, indeed, they shot a bunch of lasers at a pellet of fuel and more energy was released from that fusion ignition than the energy of the lasers going in,” White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Arati…

Scientists have just crossed one of the most important thresholds in the quest for fusion energy. A team at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has created the first known fusion reaction with a net energy gain — that is, it produced more energy than it consumed and ignited. The researchers achieved the feat on December 5th, when they used 192 lasers at the National Ignition Facility to blast a cylinder containing frozen hydrogen surrounded by diamond. The reaction, which generated a flurry of X-rays, struck a fuel…

The U.S. Department of Energy is expected to announce a major breakthrough in nuclear fusion research on Tuesday morning. Word of the expected news is already out, as the Financial Times reported yesterday that the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved net energy gain in a fusion reaction. That means more energy was produced from the reaction than it took to power the reaction.Though the research finding is just that—i.e., a result with no immediate consequences for our energy…

MIT has contributed to the success of the ignition program at the National Ignition Facilty for more than a decade by providing and using a dozen diagnostics, implemented by MIT PhD students and staff, which have been critical for assessing the performance of an implosion, like the one pictured. Credit: Image courtesy of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.<span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>MIT</div><div…

Around this time last year, a group of scientists conducted a landmark experiment that yielded more than 1.3 megajoules of energy. After an analysis, the team of scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California has confirmed that they had successfully achieved a nuclear fusion reaction that was energetic enough to sustain itself. This marks an important step towards mimicking the chemical reaction that powers the sun and uses the reaction as a source of energy.However, there is still a hurdle to be…

On the one-year anniversary of achieving a yield of more than 1.3 megajoules at LLNL’s National Ignition Facility, the scientific results of this record experiment have been published in three peer-reviewed papers: one in Physical Review Letters and two in Physical Review E. This stylized image shows a cryogenic target used for these record-setting inertial fusion experiments. Credit:James Wickboldt/LLNLAfter decades of inertial confinement fusion research, a yield of more than 1.3 megajoules (MJ) was achieved for the…

Battlegrounds Mobile India will soon get its July 2021 update that will bring a host of improvements and new features to the game. Its developer Krafton has shared some of the changes coming to the battle royale game through a video on the official Battlegrounds Mobile India YouTube channel. There will be a new weapon — a light machine gun (LMG) called the MG3. Healing consumables will now throwable items. Battlegrounds Mobile India will also get a limited-time Mission Ignition mode that will bring several changes to the…

Battlegrounds Mobile India — the Indian avatar of PUBG Mobile — has received the first content update since its official release on July 2. The update introduces a new limited-time mode called Mission Ignition and an all-new weapon called MG3 among other changes. Battlegrounds Mobile India has also received the new Royale Pass Month system as a part of the update. In addition to the content update, developer Krafton has announced a partnership with Tesla to feature its Gigafactory on the Erangel map of the first-person…

As the world of cryptocurrency continues to grow, so too does the need for launchpads: platforms created to host and promote new crypto projects as they go through their initial presale and public launch phases. Three of these platforms are BoostX, Ethereum Launchpad, and Ignition. These launchpads all have features that make them unique, providing their projects with advantages that give them the potential to make them huge in the future. As such, it is always important to research these projects before…