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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.

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.

Date: Thursday, 19 August 2021
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Laser-fusion-approaches-the-milestone-of-ignition

The US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) has signed a USD600 million contract with Cray Inc to build its first exascale supercomputer, El Capitan. The computer will be housed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California.

Date: Wednesday, 28 August 2019
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-DOE-orders-next-exascale-computer

The US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) has signed a USD600 million contract with Cray Inc to build its first exascale supercomputer, El Capitan. The computer will be housed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California.

Date: Thursday, 15 August 2019
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-DOE-orders-next-exascale-computer

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