IEER Blog Reflections on the thermonuclear ignition at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory

On December 13, 2022, Secretary of Energy, Jennifer Granholm, announced a historic scientific achievement; President Biden would call it a “BFD” she said. Eight days before, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Department’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory had aimed its 192 lasers at a single tiny capsule of deuterium and tritium and achieved “ignition”; […] The post Reflections on the thermonuclear ignition at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory appeared first on Institute for Energy and Environmental Research.