by Nicholas Cunningham | Mar 21, 2013 | Monitor
Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory have successfully demonstrated pulse tailoring, producing a time varying focal spot size known as ‘focal zooming’ on the world’s largest operating krypton fluoride (KrF) gas laser. NRL reports: The...
by Nicholas Cunningham | Feb 19, 2013 | Monitor
Oilprice.com reported that defense contractor Lockheed Martin has plans to build a small fusion power plant within a decade. Its design would use a “compact cylinder” instead of a the traditionally used “torus.” From the article: Many designs...
by Nicholas Cunningham | Nov 20, 2012 | Monitor
Over on the Dot Earth Blog at The New York Times, Andrew Revkin posted a submission by the Director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), a leader in Magnetic Confinement Fusion. Prager writes an interested post on how, despite the perception of a string...
by Nicholas Cunningham | Oct 19, 2012 | Monitor
Over at The New York Times, Andrew Revkin discusses fusion energy on his Dot Earth blog. With the National Ignition Facility missing its target of achieving “ignition” by the end of the fiscal year, some critics are calling for the fusion budget to be cut....
by Nicholas Cunningham | Sep 27, 2012 | Monitor
An article in The Energy Report discussed Sandia National Lab’s progress in fusion energy research, with key advances in the materials used to line the fusion reactor. In order to sustain a fusion reaction, special materials are needed to withstand the extremely...
