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Fusion Ignition: What Does The NIF’s 1.3 MJ Yield Mean For Fusion Research?
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 ...
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US lab creates world’s brightest X-ray source with 2x intensity for fusion research
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have created the world’s brightest X-ray source, which has ...
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National Ignition Facility laser at LLNL creates world's brightest X-ray source
"Your dentist's X-ray machine creates an electron beam that is crashed into a heavy metal plate; the electrons in the beam ...
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Frothy silver foam and fusion-grade lasers create world's brightest X-ray
A frothy breakthrough at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), using lasers with a silver metal foam that's as light as air, has created the brightest yet X-ray source ever, twice as ...
The Scientist5d
National Lab Briefs
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is supposed to be one of the government’s most secure weapons facilities, but when an in-house investigator wanted to test the sobriety of its support personnel, ...
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Physicists uncover key to resolving long-standing inertial confinement fusion hohlraum drive deficit
A team of researchers at Lawrence ... experiments at the National Ignition Facility, Physical Review E (2024). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.110.L013201 Provided by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ...
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Inside the World's Fastest Supercomputer and Its Mission to Test Nuclear Weapons
Lawrence Livermore National Lab is also home to Sierra, another massive supercomputer that peaked as the world’s second-fastest in 2018. It, too, conducts classified nuclear weapons simulations.
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Feds to dedicate ‘El Capitan' supercomputer at Livermore lab
The supercomputer housed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was assembled by Hewlett Packard Enterprise using AMD chips and takes up 7,500 square feet. The massive supercomputer ...
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Yechan Noh
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and Lawrence Livermore National Lab. The associate performs studies of aqueous ionic/molecular transport through nanoscale pores in hexagonal boron nitride and/or other ...
Four takeaways from the Los Alamos National Laboratory 'State of the Lab'
Los Alamos National Laboratory is planning to further the field of artificial intelligence and will increase its capacity for manufacturing new plutonium pits in the coming year, according to Lab ...
The Scientist5d
National Lab Briefs
Livermore Decides Not To Blow Its Stack In a decision hailed by environmentalists, Lawrence Livermore National Lab announced it wants to cancel construction of an on-site incinerator whose stack would ...