{"id":152861,"date":"2022-12-14T19:22:43","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T01:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/national-ignition-facility-demonstrates-net-fusion-energy-gain-in-world-first"},"modified":"2022-12-14T19:22:43","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T01:22:43","slug":"national-ignition-facility-demonstrates-net-fusion-energy-gain-in-world-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/national-ignition-facility-demonstrates-net-fusion-energy-gain-in-world-first","title":{"rendered":"National Ignition Facility demonstrates net fusion energy gain in world first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/national-ignition-facility-demonstrates-net-fusion-energy-gain-in-world-first.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After six decades we have finally reached controlled fusion \u201cignition.\u201d Here is how it works and what it means (and doesn\u2019t mean):<\/p>\n<p>At the Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) the National Ignition Facility (NIF) starts with the Injection Laser System (ILS), a ytterbium-doped optical fiber laser (Master Oscillator) that produces a single very lower power, 1,053 nanometer (Infrared Light) beam. This single beam is split into 48 Pre-Amplifiers Modules (PAMs) that create four beams each (192 total). Each PAM conducts a two-stage amplification process via xenon flash lamps.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Surpassing energy breakeven at US facility constitutes a \u201cWright brothers moment\u201d for fusion research, say researchers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After six decades we have finally reached controlled fusion \u201cignition.\u201d Here is how it works and what it means (and doesn\u2019t mean): At the Lawrence Livermore National Lab (LLNL) the National Ignition Facility (NIF) starts with the Injection Laser System (ILS), a ytterbium-doped optical fiber laser (Master Oscillator) that produces a single very lower power, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152861","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\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}