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US-based Longview Fusion Energy Systems has contracted Fluor to design “the world's first commercial laser fusion power plant. This is based on breakthroughs in fusion energy gain at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's (LLNL’s) National Ignition Facility (NIF). Longview is the only fusion energy company using this approach.

Date: Wednesday, 13 March 2024
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newslongview-fusion-selects-fluor-to-design-laser-fusion-plant-11594517

California-based Longview Fusion Energy Systems has contracted US engineering and construction firm Fluor Corporation to design the world's first commercial laser fusion power plant.

Date: Tuesday, 12 March 2024
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Fluor-to-design-laser-fusion-power-plant

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.

Date: Wednesday, 09 August 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/LLNL-researchers-achieve-fusion-ignition-for-secon

US-based Fluor Corporation has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Longview Fusion Energy Systems to collaborate in designing and planning laser fusion energy commercial deployment. Fluor will leverage its global experience in developing and constructing complex, large-scale facilities to provide preliminary design and engineering to support the development of Longview’s fusion-powered plant.

Date: Friday, 21 April 2023
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfluor-signs-mou-with-longview-fusion-energy-systems-10775575

Fluor Corporation has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Longview Fusion Energy Systems to be its engineering and construction partner in designing and planning laser fusion energy commercialisation.

Date: Thursday, 20 April 2023
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Fluor-and-Longview-to-partner-in-laser-fusion-deve

Ground-breaking scheduled in five years
The plants will use physics proven by this week’s breakthrough at the National Ignition Facility. Courtesy NIF. US-based Longview Fusion Energy Systems has announced plans to build the world’s first laser fusion power plant with ground-breaking for the first unit planned in five years.

The California company said its power plants will combine this week’s National Ignition Facility laser fusion breakthrough with efficient lasers and a patented design.

The NIF, the world’s most energetic laser, squeezes together a type of hydrogen so that it becomes 100 times denser than lead and at a temperature of 100 million C, bringing star power to earth.

The Longview design will replicate these conditions several hundred times a minute – similar to the repetitive pulses in a car engine but delivering over one million horsepower.

The company said its power plants will provide carbon-free, safe, economical, and sustainable energy at a scale that can power a city’s electricity and drive industrial production of materials such as steel, fertiliser and hydrogen fuel.

Date: Thursday, 15 December 2022
Original article: nucnet.org/news/us-company-to-use-nif-breakthrough-in-world-s-first-laser-plant-12-3-2022

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.

Date: Wednesday, 14 December 2022
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/US-researchers-achieve-historic-fusion-ignition

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