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- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Friday, 16 December 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsus-national-ignition-facility-achieve-fusion-ignition-10439194
GE Research, the central technology development hub for the General Electric Company, has announced that it has been selected to receive $6.4 million in funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to advance nuclear fuel reprocessing technology.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Wednesday, 09 November 2022
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsge-receives-us-funding-to-advance-used-nuclear-fuel-reprocessing-10273518
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