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Reaction replicated same natural processes found within the Sun
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Wednesday, 20 December 2023
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/us-lab-enters-new-era-achieving-ignition-over-and-over-12-2-2023
Researchers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California have reportedly achieved net energy gain in a fusion reaction for the second time. The milestone was first achieved last December.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 09 August 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/LLNL-researchers-achieve-fusion-ignition-for-secon
US fusion energy tech startup Helion Energy has signed an agreement to provide Microsoft with electricity from its first fusion power plant. Constellation will serve as the power marketer and will manage transmission for the project. Helion said the plant is expected to be online by 2028 and will target power generation of 50 MW or more after a one-year ramp up period. The companies did not disclose financial or timing details of the power purchase agreement, or which Microsoft facilities would get fusion-generated electricity.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 17 May 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newshelion-announces-first-fusion-energy-purchase-agreement-with-microsoft-10852833
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
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) under construction at Saint-Paul-les-Durance in southern France is facing more delays, ITER director general Pietro Barabaschi said in an interview with AFP.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 13 January 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsmore-delays-for-iter-10511382
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
Analysis has confirmed that an experiment conducted in 2021 created a fusion reaction energetic enough to be self-sustaining, which brings fusion one step closer to being useful as a source of energy.
The fusion ignition took place on 8 August 2021 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California, but NIF researchers have not been able to reproduce this landmark achievement since. They have spent the past year analysing the experimental conditions that led to their success 12 months ago.
Fusion ignition occurs when the energy being given off by the fusion reactions heats the fuel mass more rapidly than various loss mechanisms cool it. At this point, the external energy needed to heat the fuel to fusion temperatures is no longer needed.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 18 August 2022
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/experiment-brings-nuclear-fusion-one-step-closer-as-source-of-energy-8-3-2022
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
There is compelling new scientific evidence for the existence of low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR) according to one group of scientists. Once called “cold fusion” this process may promise a new source of energy.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 25 March 2009
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newscold-fusion-a-possible-source-of-power