{"id":151316,"date":"2022-11-28T15:25:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T21:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/key-discovery-for-future-design-of-laser-fusion-energy-reactors"},"modified":"2022-11-28T15:25:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T21:25:28","slug":"key-discovery-for-future-design-of-laser-fusion-energy-reactors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/key-discovery-for-future-design-of-laser-fusion-energy-reactors","title":{"rendered":"Key Discovery for Future Design of Laser\u2013Fusion Energy Reactors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/key-discovery-for-future-design-of-laser-fusion-energy-reactors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Work, conducted at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and featured in Nature Physics, shows that ions behave differently in fusion reactions than previously expected. Credit: John Jett and Jake Long\/LLNL<\/p>\n<p>Ions behave differently in fusion reactions than previously expected, according to new findings by scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). This discovery provides crucial insights for the future design of a laser\u2013fusion energy source.<\/p>\n<p>The findings, entitled \u201cEvidence for suprathermal ion distribution in burning plasmas,\u201d were featured in a new paper published in the November 14 issue of <em> Nature Physics.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work, conducted at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and featured in Nature Physics, shows that ions behave differently in fusion reactions than previously expected. Credit: John Jett and Jake Long\/LLNL Ions behave differently in fusion reactions than previously expected, according to new findings by scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). This discovery provides crucial insights [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151316","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=151316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}