Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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Jun 17, 2026	Лонсдейлитовая кромка. Перспективы искусственного расширения шкалы Мооса. Guest Post	Привет, Хабр! С наступлением лета пришло время для очередного гостевого поста в моём хаброблоге. Рассмотрим одну из интересных тем, за которую я не брался годами, при этом очень важную и интересную с точки зрения расширения горизонтов науки...
Jan 10, 2025	The race to harness nuclear fusion	The US National Ignition Facility’s target chamber, where a powerful laser was used to start nuclear fusion reactions in 2022. Image: Jason Laurea/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CC BY-NC-SA The way scientists think about fusion cha...
Oct 11, 2024	Zap Energy показала новый прототип термоядерной электростанции Century	Для поклонников термоядерной энергетики достижение «безубыточности» — это что-то вроде Святого Грааля: точка, в которой термоядерная реакция производит больше энергии, чем потребовалось для ее зажигания. Только один научный эксперимент, про...
Jun 5, 2024	Xcimer Energy: A Bright Spark in the Fusion Industry	Xcimer Energy, a Denver-based inertial fusion company, recently secured $100 million in Series A funding. Led by Hedosophia, this funding round also saw participation from notable investors like Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Lowercarbon Cap...
Jun 4, 2024	Fusion startup Xcimer raises $100M to build huge laser	figcaption>span]:font-sans"> Fusion startup Xcimer Energy has raised a $100 million Series A round to build a prototype of its laser-driven fusion system. Why it matters: There's growing momentum around nuclear fusion as the tech...
Jan 31, 2024	10 наиболее дорогих научных проектов в истории	Чуть ли не каждый год в мире появляется какое-то интересное открытие: только успевай читать новости на том же Хабре. А уж сколько денег, как государственных, так и частных, вливается в это — не счесть. Давайте посмотрим на 10 самых дорогих ...
Dec 22, 2023	US scientists have launched a new nuclear era they call the 'age of ignition' but it's still a distant dream from the age of nuclear power	Science US scientists have launched a new nuclear era they call the 'age of ignition' but it's still a distant dream from the age of nuclear power Jenny McGrath 2023-12-21T22:59:38Z Share icon An curved arrow pointing right. Share Facebook ...
Dec 17, 2023	The largest fusion reactor in the world fired up in Japan. Here's how the $600 million device compares to the US's revolutionary fusion machine.	Science The largest fusion reactor in the world fired up in Japan. Here's how the $600 million device compares to the US's revolutionary fusion machine. Jenny McGrath 2023-12-17T11:38:01Z Share icon An curved arrow pointing right. Share Fac...
Aug 7, 2023	Scientists achieve world-changing nuclear fusion breakthrough — twice	More On: nuclear power Hochul’s nuclear chutzpah reveals she’s cowed by climate freaks Sam Altman-backed nuclear startup going public through OpenAI boss’ SPAC Wagner mercenaries tried to steal backpack-size nukes during mutiny: report Ukra...
Jan 15, 2023	The Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough In Context	WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 13: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories Director Dr. Kim Budil ... [+] speaks during a news conference with fellow administrators and scientists at the Department of Energy headquarters to announce a breakthro...
Dec 20, 2022	Harnessing nuclear fusion is now a matter of ‘when’, not ‘if’	NIF’s target chamber, where a powerful laser is used to start nuclear fusion reactions. Image: Jason Laurea/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CC BY-NC-SA Nuclear fusion holds huge promise as a source of clean, abundant energy that cou...
Dec 15, 2022	What Does The US Fusion Breakthrough Mean? Is It Just Hype?	On Tuesday 13th December 2022, the U.S. Department of Energy and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced that the National Ignition Facility (NIF) had achieved net energy gain in their fusion machine. In other words they initiated ...
Dec 12, 2022	Breakthrough fusion power announcement expected tomorrow. Here’s what it means	Overnight, news broke that the National Ignition Facility, a U.S. government research lab, was the first to achieve net-positive nuclear fusion. When lasers hit the tiny fuel pellet, it created an explosion that released more energy than th...
Jan 14, 2022	Физические итоги прошлых лет: что же было дальше? Фавориты Великие закрытия Скандалы, интриги, расследования Загадки Технический прогресс Вместо заключения	Последние несколько лет я рассказывал на Хабре про самые интересные достижения из мира физики. Все они были по-своему прорывными, но предсказать, какое будущее ожидает тот или иной результат, было непросто. По-моему сейчас настал отличный м...
Sep 26, 2021	A blast into a clean energy future? Scientists tout nuclear fusion breakthrough	With a powerful zap from nearly 200 laser beams that lasted less than 9 billionth of a second, scientists in Northern California believe they have achieved a major milestone in their research to advance nuclear fusion. News of last month’s ...
Jul 24, 2009	General Fusion, Developer of Novel Nuclear Fusion Method, Raises $9M in Venture Financing	Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints General Fusion, a Burnaby, BC-based company that hopes to generate clean energy from a new form of nuclear fusion, has raised $9 million out of a $12.5 million equity offering...
	U.S. DOE Finalizes Roadmap to Accelerate Commercial Fusion	U.S. efforts to commercialize fusion energy are continuing full speed ahead. On June 9, 2026, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released its finalized Fusion Science & Technology Roadmap, which lays out a national strategy to rapidly ...
	Nuclear fusion breakthrough: Scientists generate more power than used to create reaction	On Tuesday, the head of the Department of Energy and other federal scientific leaders announced that a fusion reaction they ran at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California achieved net energy, meaning the reaction generated ...
	Michio Kaku calls nuclear fusion test at national lab ‘giant step toward the holy grail of energy research’	The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced a key achievement in fusion research on Tuesday. “This is a giant step toward the holy grail of energy research,” said Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at the City College an...
	Industry veterans take a shot at making fusion commercial with insanely powerful lasers	As nations around the world race to decarbonize as climate change intensifies, the promise of virtually unlimited clean energy has given new life and funding to nuclear fusion. Focused Energy is a fusion startup stacked with industry vetera...
	German start-up aims to generate unlimited clean fusion energy with lasers	Billions of dollars of private funding is going into companies chasing fusion, the way the sun and stars makes energy. Marvel Fusion, which has raised $65.9 million (60 million euros) since its founding in 2019, is pursuing an innovative ap...
	A national lab just achieved a ‘Wright Brothers moment’ in nuclear fusion	The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced a key achievement in fusion research on Tuesday. A laser light was focused onto a target the size of a BB which resulted in “a hot-spot the diameter of a human hair, generating more than ...

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