A relatively new method to control nuclear fusion that combines a massive jolt of electricity with strong magnetic fields and a powerful laser beam has achieved its own record output of neutrons—a key standard by which fusion efforts are judged—at Sandia National Laboratories' Z pulsed power facility, the most powerful producer of X-rays on Earth.
Record neutron numbers at Sandia Labs' Z machine fusion experiments
- PhysOrg
- 27. 10 2020 (21:37)