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September 6, 2016 | 02:55 pm

A first for direct-drive fusion

Experiments have created the conditions capable of producing a fusion yield that’s five times higher than the current record laser-fusion energy yield. The new work represents an important advance in a long-standing national research initiative to develop fusion as an energy source.

topics: Department of Physics and Astronomy, energy, Laboratory of Laser Energetics, lasers, Michael Campbell, Natural Sciences, nuclear fusion, Riccardo Betti, School of Arts and Sciences,