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Annie Kritcher, design physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has been awarded the 2024 David J. Rose Excellence in Fusion Engineering Award by Fusion Power Associates for her role as lead designer and team lead of the first experiment to achieve fusion ignition at the National Ignition Facility (NIF).
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LLNL design physicist receives the 2024 David J. Rose Excellence in Fusion Engineering Award for significant technical achievements and potential to become an influential leader in the fusion community.

Frank Miller has been awarded Livermore’s 2024 John S. Foster Medal.
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LLNL Director Kim Budil announces that the 2024 John S. Foster, Jr. Medal is awarded to Franklin Miller, a principal at The Scowcroft Group. 

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers, including (from left) Saptarshi Mukherjee, Johanna Vandenbrande and Ethan Rosenberg, have introduced an innovative new approach to 3D printing using microwave energy to cure materials, opening the door to a broader range of materials than ever before.
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LLNL researchers introduce an innovative new approach to 3D printing using microwave energy to cure materials, opening the door to a broader range of materials than ever before.

Vice President Sang Yup Lee from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Glenn Fox, principal associate director at LLNL, signed a memorandum of understanding in June 2024, to collaborate on basic science research regarding hydrogen and other carbon-neutral technologies.
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LLNL leaders and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) sign a memorandum of understanding to expand collaborations related to hydrogen and other low-carbon energy technology.

From left, Daniela Cusak, LLNL’s Karis McFarlane and Andy Nottingham take soil samples from a rainforest.
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LLNL scientists and colleagues find that warming and drying of tropical forest soils may increase soil carbon vulnerability, by increasing degradation of older carbon.

Shown is the SpaceX Transporter-11 stack with the Deep Purple payload (circled in red) attached to the Pathfinder Technology Demonstrator-R satellite.
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The Deep Purple telescope developed by LLNL researchers is now operational in space.

Artistic rendition of X-ray diffraction from a sample in the toroidal diamond anvil cell at conditions relevant to the deep interior of Neptune
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An international team of LLNL scientists and collaborators develop a new sample configuration that improves the reliability of equation of state measurements in a pressure regime.

The EXtreme-power, Ultra-low-loss, Dispersive Element (EXUDE) Elite optical element is one of three LLNL technologies awarded 2024 R&D 100 awards.
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LLNL scientists and engineers earn three awards among the top 100 inventions worldwide.

From left to right: Teal Pershing, Jimmy Kingston, Rachel Mannino, Ethan Bernard and Jingke Xu stand with the “XeNu” (Xe-Neutron) setup that calibrates LZ-style dark matter detectors.
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LLNL scientists contribute to figuring out the nature of dark matter using the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector, LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ).  

 

Under one of LLNL’s 2024 DOE Technology Commercialization Fund grants, Simon Pang (left) and Wenquin Li (right) will lead a team of researchers to collaborate in an effort to optimize site locations of carbon dioxide removal facilities.
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LLNL researchers continue to capture key DOE grants focused on funding projects aimed at delivering clean energy solutions to the market.