{"id":143833,"date":"2022-08-09T11:23:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T16:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/three-papers-highlight-results-of-record-1-3-megajoule-yield-experiment"},"modified":"2022-08-09T11:23:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T16:23:14","slug":"three-papers-highlight-results-of-record-1-3-megajoule-yield-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/three-papers-highlight-results-of-record-1-3-megajoule-yield-experiment","title":{"rendered":"Three papers highlight results of record 1.3 megajoule yield experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/three-papers-highlight-results-of-record-1-3-megajoule-yield-experiment.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After decades of inertial confinement fusion research, a yield of more than 1.3 megajoules (MJ) was achieved at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory\u2019s (LLNL\u2019s) National Ignition Facility (NIF) for the first time on Aug. 8, 2021, putting researchers at the threshold of fusion gain and achieving scientific ignition.<\/p>\n<p>On the one-year anniversary of this historic achievement, the scientific results of this record experiment have been published in three peer-reviewed papers: one in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i> and two in <i>Physical Review E<\/i>. More than 1,000 authors are included in one of the <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i> paper to recognize and acknowledge the many individuals who have worked over many decades to enable this significant advance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe record shot was a major scientific advance in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fusion\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fusion<\/a> research, which establishes that fusion ignition in the lab is possible at NIF,\u201d said Omar Hurricane, chief scientist for LLNL\u2019s inertial confinement fusion program. \u201cAchieving the conditions needed for ignition has been a long-standing goal for all inertial confinement fusion research and opens access to a new experimental regime where alpha-particle self-heating outstrips all the cooling mechanisms in the fusion plasma.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After decades of inertial confinement fusion research, a yield of more than 1.3 megajoules (MJ) was achieved at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory\u2019s (LLNL\u2019s) National Ignition Facility (NIF) for the first time on Aug. 8, 2021, putting researchers at the threshold of fusion gain and achieving scientific ignition. On the one-year anniversary of this historic achievement, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143833","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}