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. A rendering of a ...

The NT Times had a recent article discussing laser nuclear fusion. Nextbigfuture has spoken with all of the nuclear fusion companies listed in the NY Times article as they all attended the 2023 ...

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 ...

CEO of Blue Laser Fusion, Shuji Nakamura commented, "As we work to commercialize our innovative fusion technology to achieve our vision of a future powered by clean, limitless energy, we are proud to ...

The world’s only net-positive fusion experiment has been steadily ramping up the amount of power it produces, TechCrunch has learned. In recent attempts, the team at the U.S. Department of Energy’s ...

Conceptual design for a LIFE engine and power plant based on National Ignition Facility (NIF)-like fusion targets and a NIF-like laser operating at an energy of 1.4 megajoules (MJ) at a wavelength of ...

The US Naval Research Laboratory (AFL) is developing an Argon Fluoride (ArF) laser that may one day make fusion power a practical commercial technology. The wide-bandwidth ultraviolet laser is ...

With a powerful laser zap, scientists have blasted toward a milestone for nuclear fusion. A fusion experiment at the world’s biggest laser facility released 1.3 million joules of energy, coming close ...

Record breaking: inside LLE’s OMEGA laser when it achieved its best-ever fusion yield. (Courtesy: Eugene Kowaluk/LLE) Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments have been improved by a new computer ...

A Japanese startup has unveiled a plan to shoot down space junk using lasers developed for nuclear fusion power. Osaka-based EX-Fusion is taking a novel ground-based approach to dealing with the issue ...

Magnetized plasmas have rarely been studied as nonlinear photonics media, yet they possess unique properties: Compared to unmagnetized plasmas, magnetization introduces additional resonances, which ...