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Nuclear fusion

Nuclear fusion

Anomalous plasma burning heats-up fusion research

24 Nov 2022
Illustration of fusion at NIF
Suprathermal effect: researchers at NIF have discovered that ions involved in nuclear fusion are not moving as expected. (Courtesy: John Jett/Jake Long/LLNL)
Last year and after about a decade of trying, physicists working at the mammoth National Ignition Fa

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