{"id":202358,"date":"2024-12-25T00:07:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T06:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/llnl-researchers-explore-next-gen-3d-printing-to-harness-fusion-energy"},"modified":"2024-12-25T00:07:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T06:07:17","slug":"llnl-researchers-explore-next-gen-3d-printing-to-harness-fusion-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/llnl-researchers-explore-next-gen-3d-printing-to-harness-fusion-energy","title":{"rendered":"LLNL researchers explore next-gen 3D printing to harness fusion energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/llnl-researchers-explore-next-gen-3d-printing-to-harness-fusion-energy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When L<a href=\"https:\/\/contenthub.llnl.gov\/www.llnl.gov\">awrence Livermore National Laboratory<\/a> (LLNL) achieved fusion ignition at the <a href=\"https:\/\/lasers.llnl.gov\/about\/what-is-nif\">National Ignition Facility<\/a> (NIF) in December 2022, the world\u2019s attention turned to the prospect of how that breakthrough experiment \u2014 designed to secure the nation\u2019s nuclear weapons stockpile \u2014 might also pave the way for virtually limitless, safe and carbon-free fusion energy.<\/p>\n<p>Advanced 3D printing offers one potential solution to bridging the science and technology gaps presented by current efforts to make inertial fusion energy (IFE) power plants a reality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that we have achieved and repeated fusion ignition,\u201d said Tammy Ma, lead for LLNL\u2019s inertial fusion energy institutional initiative, \u201cthe Lab is rapidly applying our decades of know-how into solving the core physics and engineering challenges that come with the monumental task of building the fusion ecosystem necessary for a laser fusion power plant. The mass production of ignition-grade targets is one of these, and cutting-edge 3D printing could help get us there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) achieved fusion ignition at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in December 2022, the world\u2019s attention turned to the prospect of how that breakthrough experiment \u2014 designed to secure the nation\u2019s nuclear weapons stockpile \u2014 might also pave the way for virtually limitless, safe and carbon-free fusion energy. Advanced 3D [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,38,9,873,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-engineering","category-military","category-nuclear-energy","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202358","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=202358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}