Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

what are they?

Well, I mean, so the big thing was a couple of years ago, December 2022, for the first time ever, the National Ignition Facility, big laser facility out in California, Lawrence Livermore, showed that there will be more, that they could get more fusion energy out than was put onto the target.

Wow.

And that really is, that was a breakthrough moment, really kind of almost a right burst.

That's Susan Zimmerman, a geochronologist and ancient lake expert.

She's a research associate at the Berkeley Geochronology Center and a staff scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Initially, when I read the initial paper, I was like, yeah, they, I mean, they thought about where the water could be coming from and whether there could be a reservoir effect.

And they really, you know, they thought through why they believed the dates, right? Because they didn't have a particular horse in the race.

We chose this architecture because it works.

In the 1980s, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Lab operated a similar reactor for over 25,000 hours at high fusion power density.

Why revisit this? Because demand for radiopharmaceuticals has gone exponential, with the most successful treatments serving tens of thousands of patients per year.

Our first generation of commercial reactors will transform fusion from an experiment to an industry, developing critical supply chains and allowing us to test the materials necessary for operation of fusion power plants.

It doesn't work in very windy conditions.

so therefore they have to shut down therefore you need an alternative sources of backup and natural gas is clean despite what misinformation is about it so that some places use natural gas as a complement the next thing that's out there is nuclear power is coming back and so the big ai companies including microsoft and some other companies are all investing in old nuclear power plants to bring them back And then Lawrence Livermore Lab, there's a company called Inertia that's actually creating, they think they will have commercial fusion power sources as small as a truck container within three to five years, let's say five.

So power, power, power is now a necessity.

And so the market is looking at how do we generate that from various sources.

It's taken like 60 years to get to this point.

So it'll be still complicated to get it out there.

But now, various companies from Japan, South Korea, Lawrence Livermore Lab, as I mentioned, or actually see a time horizon over the next 5, 8, 10 years where they can actually make it commercially applicable.

The other driver that's accelerating the research in this It's amazing that most of our military bases do not generate their own power.

It doesn't work in very windy conditions.

so therefore they have to shut down therefore you need an alternative sources of backup and natural gas is clean despite what misinformation is about it so that some places use natural gas as a complement the next thing that's out there is nuclear power is coming back and so the big ai companies including microsoft and some other companies are all investing in old nuclear power plants to bring them back And then Lawrence Livermore Lab, there's a company called Inertia that's actually creating, they think they will have commercial fusion power sources as small as a truck container within three to five years, let's say five.

So power, power, power is now a necessity.

And so the market is looking at how do we generate that from various sources.

It's taken like 60 years to get to this point.

So it'll be still complicated to get it out there.

But now, various companies from Japan, South Korea, Lawrence Livermore Lab, as I mentioned, or actually see a time horizon over the next 5, 8, 10 years where they can actually make it commercially applicable.

The other driver that's accelerating the research in this It's amazing that most of our military bases do not generate their own power.

It doesn't work in very windy conditions.

so therefore they have to shut down therefore you need an alternative sources of backup and natural gas is clean despite what misinformation is about it so that some places use natural gas as a complement the next thing that's out there is nuclear power is coming back and so the big ai companies including microsoft and some other companies are all investing in old nuclear power plants to bring them back And then Lawrence Livermore Lab, there's a company called Inertia that's actually creating, they think they will have commercial fusion power sources as small as a truck container within three to five years, let's say five.

So power, power, power is now a necessity.

And so the market is looking at how do we generate that from various sources.

It's taken like 60 years to get to this point.

So it'll be still complicated to get it out there.

But now, various companies from Japan, South Korea, Lawrence Livermore Lab, as I mentioned, or actually see a time horizon over the next 5, 8, 10 years where they can actually make it commercially applicable.

The other driver that's accelerating the research in this It's amazing that most of our military bases do not generate their own power.

Yeah.

And so I ended up in San Jose for a couple of years and then ultimately landed my, I would say, long-term career at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in Livermore.

And it just so happened Livermore was my hometown.

And so I was back with, you know, family and friends and, you know.

Now, imagine an asteroid hundreds of feet across, approaching a major metropolitan area.

Scientists of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have been conducting advanced simulations examining whether nuclear explosions could deflect or disrupt threatened asteroids.

NASA has already demonstrated one form of planetary defense through its successful DART mission, which deliberately crashed a spacecraft onto an asteroid site Moonlit and altered its orbit.

They've been watching too many movies.