Laser Blasts Clear a Path Toward Clean Energy

"Fusion is the ultimate goal of energy research. It is clean, abundant, and safe," says Dr. Luke Ceurvorst, a researcher at the University of Bordeaux in France. Recently, Ceurvorst and a team of collaborators from around the world reported new research results in the American Physical Society's journal Physical Review E that will help scientists working to achieve nuclear fusion using a technique called fast ignition. This experiment took place at the OMEGA Extended Performance (EP) Laser Facil...