General Atomics Brings Inertial Fusion Energy Expertise to Two National Research Hubs
San Diego, CA, Dec. 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- General Atomics (GA) has been selected as a team member for two science and technology hubs funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Inertial Fusion Energy Science & Technology Accelerated Research ( IFE-STAR ) program to advance IFE science and technologies.
- San Diego, CA, Dec. 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- General Atomics (GA) has been selected as a team member for two science and technology hubs funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Inertial Fusion Energy Science & Technology Accelerated Research ( IFE-STAR ) program to advance IFE science and technologies.
- The STARFIRE and RISE hubs will each receive $16 million each over the next four years.
- IFE is currently the only fusion approach to have achieved net energy gain in a laboratory, after achieving a 1.5x energy gain at LLNL’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) in December 2022.
- Other collaborators working on the RISE hub include CSU, Stanford & SLAC National Accelerator Lab, University of Illinois, Cornell University, Texas A&M, Los Alamos National Lab (LANL), Naval Research Lab (NRL), Marvel Fusion (MF), and Xcimer Energy.