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LLNL Researchers Explore Next-Gen 3D Printing to Harness Fusion Energy

When Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) achieved fusion ignition at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in December 2022, the world’s attention turned to the prospect of how that breakthrough experiment–designed to secure the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile–might also pave the way for virtually limitless, safe, and carbon-free fusion energy.   Advanced 3D printing offers one...

LLNL-led team receives ARPA-E funding for technology to enable fusion power plants

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has awarded a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)-led team $3.4 million to develop new alloys for first wall fusion reactors and enable commercial fusion energy. The funding came through ARPA-E’s Creating Hardened And Durable fusion first Wall Incorporating Centralized Knowledge (CHADWICK) program...

LLNL presents on fusion energy at industry collaboration event

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) recently joined representatives from higher education, including Columbia University, government officials from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Air Force Research Laboratory as well as tech industry guests and moderators from Google, Bloomberg, Fortune and venture capital at the Roadrunner Technology Forum in Albuquerque, New Mexico....

Livermore Lab Foundation Selects LLNL Fusion Fellows for 2024

The Livermore Lab Foundation this summer honored two LLNL student interns as 2024 Fusion Fellows.

LLNL’s Tammy Ma Shares Fusion Energy Vision with TED

What would you do with the largest laser in the world? That’s the question LLNL physicist Tammy Ma posed to the audience on the main stage at the influential TED conference held in April in Vancouver. In the talk, which was publicly released today, Ma shared her answer: bringing about a world powered by laser-based fusion energy, made possible by the Lab’s Dec. 5, 2022 achievement of fusion...

Video: The Latest Developments in Fusion Energy

LLNL plasma physicist Tammy Ma talked about how the Lab achieved fusion ignition at NIF and the long road still ahead toward fusion energy during this presentation recorded on Feb. 2, 2024, at the United Kingdom’s Royal Institution. “We are using inertial confinement fusion to bring star power to Earth,” said Ma, the lead for LLNL’s Inertial Fusion Energy IFE Institutional Initiative and...