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March 25, 2025, 7:01AMNuclear News

Representatives of First Light Fusion stand outside Sandia’s Z Pulsed Power Facility. (Photo: First Light Fusion)

First Light Fusion announced last week that it has set a new record for the highest quartz pressure achieved on Sandia National Laboratories’ Z machine using its amplifier technology to achieve an output pressure of 3.67 terapascal (TPa)—roughly doubling the pressure the company reached in its first experiment on the machine one year ago.

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