The THOR target, featuring the windows around the hohlraum’s equator. Courtesy LANL LANL NEWS RELEASE A Los Alamos National Laboratory-led team working in conjunction with Lawrence Livermore ...

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Mixed heavy and light rare earth oxide concentrates produced from Halleck Creek’s allanite-based ore as part of the US ...

Scientists in the United States have used artificial intelligence (AI) to predict the outcome of a nuclear fusion experiment ...

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed a deep learning model that accurately predicts the outcomes of nuclear fusion experiments.

Researchers at the National Ignition Facility achieved nuclear fusion ignition with the help of an AI program that ...

In the decades since Project Pluto’s cancellation, the Russians have taken the core idea as their own—and unlike the Americans, do not appear concerned about the ethical quandaries it presents.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) physicist Cole Pruitt has been awarded the 2025 Facility for Rare Isotope Beams ...

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in nuclear fusion reached a milestone this month, as AI agents at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) developed a new fusion-target design ...

Jeff Colvin, a research physicist and author of “Avoiding Apocalypse: How Science and Scientists Ended the Cold War,” will give a presentation on the Manhattan Project, the top-secret effort to ...

Despite strong evidence that plastics are harmful to people, oil-producing countries oppose action on human health.

LLNL announces a new tsunami warning system using the world's fastest supercomputer, El Capitan, for real-time forecasts.