Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: A Look Back at the First Inertial Confinement Fusion Experiment in 1974
December 18, 2024
December 18, 2024
LIVERMORE, California, Dec. 18 -- The U.S. Department of Energy Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory issued the following news:
Fifty years ago in December 1974, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)'s inertial confinement fusion (ICF) program blasted a glass ball so tiny it was hardly visible to the human eye. The experiment was small, but the result was enormous.
"It was the simplest possible experiment to achieve thermonuclear fusion," said LLNL s . . .
Fifty years ago in December 1974, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)'s inertial confinement fusion (ICF) program blasted a glass ball so tiny it was hardly visible to the human eye. The experiment was small, but the result was enormous.
"It was the simplest possible experiment to achieve thermonuclear fusion," said LLNL s . . .