It's out, NIF has shown gain, Q > 1. If confirmed on Tues this is a profound and very important result. It shows that inertial fusion can work in a device suitable for a power plant 🧵#fusion #ClimateEmergency
ft.com/content/4b6f0f… We have long known that the physics of inertial fusion works. Both the US and UK tested inertial fusion capsules underground. These were high-gain targets, the kind needed for a power plant

Read about our pilot plant design in tomorrows Telegraph! Unlocking scalability with a tritium production plant, as well as making the financing a lot easier. @Telegraph @FLFusion 🧵
telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/… The revenue from tritium could be 5x more than that from electricity. But only if you have customers. Eventually, tritium will be easy to come by, but not at first. The pilot plant has a one-time opportunity, one valuable enough to pay for the plant.

After a long time on fusion shots, we're back to diagnostic work. We're measuring the x-ray spectrum emitted from the plasma, which is a way of measuring it's temperature. Using 6 channels per shot with different filters we can get the spectrum. (1/n) 🧵 @FLFusion #fusion The set here covers a range of photon energies from ~500 - 1500 eV. The Cu one stands out; each filter transmits a specific energy window. Unfortunately, nothing is easy. To get the x-rays out we have to put a hole in the target. (2/n)

Enough lay-chat. What have we really done? Everything here comes from our white paper detailing the experimental results. If you want them, every single raw data trace is there. 🧵(1/n)

firstlightfusion.com/science-hub/va… The signature of fusion is emission of neutrons. This pic shows DT fuel; we used DD in today's result. The DD reaction also produces a neutron, but 2.45 MeV instead of 14.1 MeV. (2/n)