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The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and First Light Fusion have signed an agreement for a facility to house First Light’s Machine 4 at UKAEA’s Culham Campus in Oxfordshire. The announcement of the design and construction of the new purpose-built building follows the recent confirmation of net energy gain by the US National Ignition Facility (NIF), at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 27 January 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfirst-light-fusion-to-build-demonstration-facility-at-ukaea-culham-campus-10546223
The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and First Light Fusion have signed an agreement for the design and construction of a facility to house the company's new net energy gain demonstrator, Machine 4, at the authority's Culham Campus in Oxfordshire.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 26 January 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Construction-start-for-First-Light-Fusion-s-demons
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 16 December 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-national-ignition-facility-achieve-fusion-ignition-10439194
The first ever controlled fusion experiment to produce more energy from fusion than the laser energy used to drive it was conducted at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) on 5 December - a breakthrough that has been decades in the making.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 14 December 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-researchers-achieve-historic-fusion-ignition
Researchers at the Joint European Torus in the UK doubled previous records by producing a total of 59 megajoules of heat energy from fusion over a five second period.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 10 February 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Fusion-energy-record-at-JET-huge-step-forward
An experiment at the US Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL’s) National Ignition Facility (NIF) has taken a significant step toward ignition, achieving a yield of more than 1.3 megajoules (MJ). NIF said on 8 August. This advancement puts researchers at the threshold of fusion ignition, an important goal of NIF, leading the way to a new experimental regime. The experiment was enabled by focusing laser light from NIF — the size of three football fields — onto a target to produce a hot-spot the diameter of a human hair, generating more than 10 quadrillion watts of fusion power for 100 trillionths of a second.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 20 August 2021
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-national-ignition-facility-makes-progress-towards-fusion-ignition-9012356
The USA's National Ignition Facility has achieved a record fusion yield that it says puts it "at the threshold of fusion ignition". The record laser shot produced 25 times more than the facility's next best experiment.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Thursday, 19 August 2021
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Laser-fusion-approaches-the-milestone-of-ignition
The simultaneous use of diverse energy generators including nuclear to provide power, heat, mobility and other energy services could lead to paradigm shifts in clean energy production, according to an academic paper recently published by researchers from the US Department of Energy's applied energy laboratories. Meanwhile, US-based NuScale Power has evaluated the boost in clean hydrogen production that will result from a 25% increase in power output from its small modular reactor.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 12 December 2020
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Hybrid-systems-could-lead-to-clean-energy-paradigm