Fusion News: One Step Closer to Fusion Energy
Tiffany Trader’s article, One Step Closer to Fusion Energy, in HPC Wire discusses Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s recent breakthrough at the National Ignition Facility:
On Aug. 13, 2013, all 192 of the ultra-powerful laser beams at NIF converged on a tiny deuterium-tritium filled capsule. In a matter of nanoseconds, the capsule imploded and released a neutron yield of nearly 3×10^15, or approximately 8,000 joules of neutron energy. It was a record-setting yield, three times higher than previous efforts.
According to an official lab announcement, “this newest accomplishment provides an important benchmark for the program’s computer simulation tools, and represents a step along the ‘path forward’ for ignition delivered by the NNSA to Congress in December 2012.”
Read the whole fusion news article.
