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Inside a new steel-clad facility nicknamed “The Citadel,” First Light Fusion has installed a 22-meter two-stage gas gun—the third-largest such component in Europe.
New measurement of diamond phase change could mean increased ICF energy gain
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have measured how diamond melts under extreme pressures, resolving a long-standing discrepancy between experiment and theory. In inertial...
DOE funds ORNL and Kyoto Fusioneering test facility
Yesterday, Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced that the Department of Energy has committed funding to develop a fusion breeding blanket test facility at the lab in partnership with Kyoto...
Porous tungsten scrubbed by glow discharge cleaning
Researchers conducted experiments in Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory’s Lithium Tokamak Experiment-Beta (LTX-β) showing glow discharge cleaning can be used to effectively clean samples...
ORNL, Rutherford Energy Ventures launch fusion partnership
Fusion Upscaled Leveraged Consortia for Rapid Acceleration (FULCRA) is the new public-private partnership between Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Rutherford Energy Ventures, a fusion...
Wendelstein 7-X designing 2-MW gyrotrons to upgrade heating system
The Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) announced yesterday that it is developing 2-MW gyrotrons to be used as the main plasma heating system of the Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X).W7-X,...
Graphene nanoribbon explored as basis for gamma monitoring in fusion machines
A tiny ribbon may hold big promise for detecting radiation damage in future tokamaks.Researchers at the University of Arizona have shown that, when exposed to gamma radiation, graphene...
Laser-crystal sensor measures strong magnetic fields in challenging environments
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have patented a magneto-optical sensor, which uses a rare earth crystal and laser light to measure the strength of intense magnetic fields and...
LLNL and Pacific Fusion achieve 3,000-shot milestone with Sirius pulsed-power prototype
Researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Pacific Fusion have surpassed 3,000 “shots” with Sirius, a four-stage prototype impedance-matched Marx generator (IMG) of the...
Commonwealth Fusion Systems joins UKAEA’s LIBRTI program
Commonwealth Fusion Systems, headquartered in Devens, Mass., has been selected by the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority as the first international partner for the agency’s Lithium Breeding...
U.K. delivers final cask of vitrified HLW to Germany
Completing an international commitment between the two countries, the United Kingdom’s Nuclear Transport Solutions (NTS) delivered the third and final shipment of vitrified high-level...
