Researchers at LLNL have found that implosions designed for inertial fusion energy (IFE) can tolerate significant imperfections before performance abruptly declines, a finding that could inform the design of fuel targets for future fusion power plants.
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LLNL scientists and engineers have earned six R&D 100 Awards, which recognize the top 100 inventions worldwide. LLNL was the lead laboratory on four of the winning inventions and contributed to two multi-lab invention wins.
A new study from an international scientific team led by the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB) and LLNL was published in Nature, and work sheds light on the internal structure of atomic nuclei and has far-reaching implications for national security and astrophysics.
In a new study, published in Nature Physics, researchers at LLNL document how diamond melts under pressures three times greater than the conditions at the Earth’s core.
New research in Nature Communications — conducted by a team from LLNL, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Ligo Analytics, the University of California, Irvine and the University of California, Davis — provides the first high-resolution images of protein structures in the outer membrane of chlamydia.
LLNL will support the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment 02 (CAPSTONE 02), led by Advanced Space’s mission integration team.
New reactor technology from LLNL has the potential to turn that waste into a valuable feedstock for useful chemicals and fuels. The result could bolster domestic manufacturing, diversify supply chains and ensure lasting energy security in the U.S.
An international team, including scientists at LLNL, has analyzed that meteorite. Their results — which indicate that the meteor was once a part of an ancient, briny asteroid — appear in the journal Science Advances.
LLNL has completed delivery of the first 220 line-replaceable units (LRUs) to the Integrated Test Stand (ITS) at Nevada National Security Sites (NNSS), as well as the first 100 LRUs to be used at NNSS’s underground facility, the Principal Underground Laboratory for Subcritical Experimentation (PULSE).
On a multi-billion-mile journey to the asteroid Psyche, a gamma-ray sensor developed by a team at LLNL took its first measurements of a planetary surface after 2.6 years in deep space.