"Achieving it is a triumph of science, engineering, and most of all, people." US agency makes game-changing breakthrough with ...

Scripps News' Liz Landers caught up with Dr. Kimberly Budil, director of Lawrence Livermore National Lab, to learn more about ...

Researchers have developed a method which can be used to additively manufacture metallic materials so that they are locally ...

Xcimer Energy Inc. announced today that semiconductor scale-up pioneer Dr. Silvia De Dea has joined in an all-new role of Head of Materials and Process Engineering. The company also launched an ...

Laser-produced plasmas are plasmas produced by firing high-intensity beams of light. Laser-produced plasmas have been used to create short bursts of x-rays and to accelerate particles — so ...

External challenges to U.S. leadership, especially large ones, create visibility, often engendering race-like competition. At ...

The US will now use the laser to simulate the extreme physical conditions that nuclear weapons face.

Lawrence Livermore proved over 4X power gain from laser fusion in April 2025.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is pursuing funding to increase the laser fusion power at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) from 2.2 megajoules (MJ) to 2.6 MJ as part of the Enhanced ...

However, the results indicate that controlled nuclear fusion is possible. The NIF relies on the principle of laser-based inertial confinement fusion. The fuel – the hydrogen isotopes deuterium ...