First Light Fusion achieves a groundbreaking pressure record with Sandia National Laboratories' 'Z Machine.'
A privately funded UK-based fusion technology startup has announced that it has broken a pressure record for its innovative nuclear fusion technology. First Light Fusion set a new record of 1.85-terapascals using a powerful pulsed machine.
First Light Fusion differs from other companies exploring nuclear fusion in pursuing something called inertial confinement fusion . This uses a projectile fired at high speed to create extremely high temperatures and pressures to trigger a fusion reaction. They added, “Without the need for hugely complex and expensive lasers to facilitate the fusion reaction, this is a simpler, cheaper, more energy-efficient approach to achieving fusion with lower physics risk.”reports that First Light Fusion claims its amplifier technology increases the pressure the projectile impact produces, which is necessary for fusion. To test this, First Light used Sandia’s “Z Machine,” based in the US state of New Mexico, the world’s most potent pulsed power facility.
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