After the spark: How a national lab is helping power commercial fusion
For years, the scientists and engineers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory tried to light a fire in a way that had never been done before. A massive team and hundreds of experiments went into the effort without success, until December 2022.
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Physics Today has an article about what went wrong with the LANL/LLNL contract. http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstod...
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The budget has a 20% decrease to DOE office of science, 20% cut to NIH. NASA also gets a cut. This will have a huge negative effect on the ...
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Fine let LLNL produce the tritium.
Pure fiction.
https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Cold_fusion
Inertial confinement and the alternative-concept boom — NIF’s ignition record (target gain 4.13, 2025) is real, but NIF is a weapons-physics facility (negative wall-plug, 2–3 shots/day), not a power path, and the private alternatives each carry an unproven core
https://uthandonethemba.com/2026/07/25/fusion-part2-inertial/
NIF posts an 8.6 MJ shot at gain >4, but commercial ICF hinges on diode-pumped lasers reaching 10–18% wall-plug efficiency.
https://www.fusionenergynews.com/story/yield-scaling-and-wall-plug-efficiency-in-inertial-confinement-fusion
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