Plasma physicist Debbie Callahan, chief strategy officer at Focused Energy, talks to Hamish Johnston about her work in laser fusion research ...

Driven by the need for new energy, Germany has committed €1.7 billion in funding and partnered with companies like Proxima ...

As the question of how to make a laser fusion reactor practical rises, scientists at the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) have come up with a way for fusion lasers to ...

Two recent scientific breakthroughs have opened a new way to laser fusion reactions according to startup HB11 Energy. It involves the reaction between hydrogen H and the boron isotope 11 (HB11) as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a major development, satellite imagery analysis has revealed that China is developing a laser fusion research facility in ...

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 ...

Longview Fusion Energy Systems, one of several startup companies working on laser-driven fusion, says it has agreed a deal with the construction firm Fluor to design the world's first commercial laser ...

The daydream of science-fiction fans and supervillains everywhere has inched one step closer to reality: Scientists have demonstrated a new technique for nuclear fusion, the process that fuels stars ...

Smashing protons into boron nuclei produces greatly increased energies. You have full access to this article via your institution. Scientists have been working for decades to harness the power source ...

There’s a big new kid on the nuclear energy block. Last week British firm AWE (formerly the Atomic Weapons Establishment), based in Aldermaston, the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Harwell, UK, and ...