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USCL Letter to George Bush 2002

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A letter sent by Hugh Roy Marshall on behalf of USCL to President George W. Bush (Read President Bush’s response here) Download PDF This browser does not support PDFs. Please download the PDF to view it..

China’s ‘artificial sun’ shatters nuclear fusion record by generating steady loop of plasma for 1,000 seconds

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Live Science Jan. 21, 2025 A nuclear fusion reactor in China, dubbed the “artificial sun,” has broken its own record to bring humanity one step closer to near-limitless clean energy. The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) nuclear fusion reactor on Jan. 15, 2025 in China. (Image credit: Zhang Dagang/VCG via Getty Images) China‘s “artificial sun” … Read more

DOE National Laboratory Makes History by Achieving Fusion Ignition

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) today announced the achievement of fusion ignition at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)—a major scientific breakthrough decades in the making. energy.gov December 13, 2022 For First Time, Researchers Produce More Energy from Fusion Than Was Used to Drive It, Promising Further Discovery … Read more

Comment on “Staged z-pinch modeling of high and low atomic number liners compressing deuterium targets using parameters of the Z pulsed power facility“

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[Phys. Plasmas 28, 112701 (2021)] Irvin R. Lindemuth Affiliation: Retired, formerly Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico August 2022 This comment and a response by Ruskov, Ney, and Rahman have been accepted for publication in the Physics of Plasmas. Publication is tentatively scheduled in August or September 2022. This preprint is provided with … Read more