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Dayne Fratanduono, deputy NIF director leading the effort for the enhanced yield capability, stands in a critical spot under the NIF beamline.
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Studies using recent ignition experiments indicate such an upgrade in laser energy could increase fusion output by a factor of 10, resulting in yields in the 30 MJ range.

Nature Scientific Reports cover
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Scientists at LLNL have found that synthetic antibacterial minerals exhibit potent antibacterial activity against topical MRSA infections and increase the rate of wound closure.

Illustrative graphic of the Earth's core
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Researchers combined lasers and X-ray diffraction methods to examine how different crystal structures of iron are related to each other.

Researchers pictured with a hydrogen storage system
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Researchers from LLNL and Verne, a San Francisco-based start-up, have demonstrated a hydrogen storage system that can support heavy-duty vehicles, such as semi trucks.

Roads to Removal report pictured with forest background
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“Roads to Removal: Options for Carbon Dioxide Removal in the United States,” charts a path for the United States to achieve a net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) economy by 2050.

Carol Woodward and Judy Hill pictured with SIAM logo
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The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics announced the election of LLNL computational mathematician Carol Woodward as its president-elect and LLNL computational scientist Judy Hill as a council member for the organization.

Admiral Richard Mies donated the $25,000 honorarium received with the Foster Medal to the Livermore Lab Foundation. Mies presented LLF Chair Dona Crawford with a check at the Oct. 18 luncheon.
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In an award ceremony held last month at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), U.S. Navy Admiral Richard W. Mies was presented with the John S. Foster Jr.

Group photo of event finalists and judges
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Gathered in the Congressional Auditorium on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 17 early-career researchers used three minutes and a single slide to present their pioneering research during the inaugural National Lab Research SLAM.

Larry Pelz, Jean-Michel Di Nicola, and John Heebner pictured in the Master Oscillator Room
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The National Ignition Facility (NIF) set a new record for laser energy on October 30th, firing

Members of the Simple Cloud Resolving E3SM Atmosphere Model (SCREAM) team
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An LLNL-led effort simulating a global climate model on the world’s first exascale supercomputer has won the first-ever Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling.