{"id":115172,"date":"2020-10-27T16:24:19","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T23:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/record-neutron-numbers-at-sandia-labs-z-machine-fusion-experiments"},"modified":"2020-10-28T22:29:03","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T05:29:03","slug":"record-neutron-numbers-at-sandia-labs-z-machine-fusion-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/record-neutron-numbers-at-sandia-labs-z-machine-fusion-experiments","title":{"rendered":"Record neutron numbers at Sandia Labs\u2019 Z machine fusion experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/record-neutron-numbers-at-sandia-labs-z-machine-fusion-experiments2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A relatively new method to control nuclear fusion that combines a massive jolt of electricity with strong magnetic fields and a powerful laser beam has achieved its own record output of neutrons\u2014a key standard by which fusion efforts are judged\u2014at Sandia National Laboratories\u2019 Z pulsed power facility, the most powerful producer of X-rays on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The achievement, from a project called MagLIF, for magnetized liner inertial fusion, was reported in a paper published Oct. 9 in the journal Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe output in neutrons in the past two years increased by more than an order of magnitude,\u201d said Sandia physicist and lead investigator Matt Gomez. \u201cWe\u2019re not only pleased that the improvements we implemented led to this increase in output, but that the increase was accurately predicted by theory.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A relatively new method to control nuclear fusion that combines a massive jolt of electricity with strong magnetic fields and a powerful laser beam has achieved its own record output of neutrons\u2014a key standard by which fusion efforts are judged\u2014at Sandia National Laboratories\u2019 Z pulsed power facility, the most powerful producer of X-rays on Earth. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115226,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115172\/revisions\/115226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}