Fusion Breakthroughs – Episode 4 (National Ignition Facility – scientific fusion energy gain)
Channel: IAEAvideo
Date: 2023-02-07

Organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), this webinar gives an overview and puts in perspective the most recent ground-breaking results in fusion R&D, to understand how such progress brings fusion energy closer to realization. In this special episode, experts from the US DOE Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), National Ignition Facility (NIF) present results from the historic fusion breakthrough announced on December 13, 2022: scientific energy gain for the first time in a fusion experiment. Release Number: LLNL-PRES-844193
 
00:00 Introduction
 
02:30 How Ignition and Target Gain Greater Than 1 was achieved in inertial fusion | Omar A. Hurricane, LLNL, USA
 
49:20 Q&A and Panel Discussion | Omar A. Hurricane, Jean M. Di Nicola, Annie Kritcher, Andrew MacKinnon, Abbas Nikroo, Bruno Van Wonterghem and Alex Zylstra, LLNL, USA
 
Moderator: 
Matteo Barbarino, IAEA
Joanne Liou, IAEA


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