Photo of the Week: Fusion Ignition: The Chamber Where it Happened

The target chamber of Lawrence Livermore National Lab's (LLNL) National Ignition Facility, where 192 lasers delivered more than 2 million joules of ultraviolet energy to a tiny fuel pellet to create fusion ignition on December 5, 2022.  Ignition is a potentially world-changing breakthrough for fusion energy and a key initial step in a decades-long quest for limitless clean energy. LLNL has been leading the development of Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE), including sponsoring a community workshop on the potential for Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) research to generate commercially viable IFE and participating in a DOE workshop on public-private fusion energy partnerships. For more information on LLNL, click here.

Photo credit: Jason Laurea/LLNL