Fusion
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Start-Ups With Laser Beams: The Companies Trying to Ignite Fusion Energy
Companies are looking to commercialize advances made by federally supported research labs in the quest for boundless energy.
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World
The 2022 Good Tech Awards
The year 2022, in the tech world, was one of big leaps and even bigger pratfalls. The falls included some of the industry’s most recognizable names. Sam Bankman-Fried began the year as the biggest celebrity in crypto, with a net worth of more than ...
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World
Could Fusion Arrive in Time to Solve Climate Change?
This article is part of the Debatable newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on Wednesdays. When researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California announced last week that they had achieved the first controlled nuclear ...
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World
Is Nuclear Fusion the Answer to Our Energy Needs?
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Business
Betting on Fusion Energy Shows Our Children We Care About Them
On Dec. 5, 192 lasers at the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California fired a synchronized shot at a golden cylinder about the size of a jelly bean. With exquisite precision, the capsule focused the laser ...
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World
What Comes After a World’s First in Fusion Research
As soon as Kim Budil, the director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, said on Tuesday that cheap, abundant electricity from nuclear fusion is still “probably decades” away, some people lost interest in the news that her lab had achieved a ...
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World
Your Wednesday Briefing: A Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough
Plus Argentina beat Croatia to advance to the World Cup finals.
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Politics
Scientists Achieve Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough With Blast of 192 Lasers
The advancement by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers will be built on to further develop fusion energy research.
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Politics
Major Fusion Energy Breakthrough to Be Announced by Scientists
Researchers working with lasers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are expected to say they made a major advance that could lead to future energy sources.