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Berkeley Lab contributes to report for US fusion, plasma science research Berkeley Lab/Courtesy The U.S. Department of Energy’s Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee recently adopted a report regarding a 10-year plan for fusion and plasma science research. According to the report, plasma research has led to significant scientific achievements. Two years in the making, a report adopted by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee, or FESAC, establishes a p...

" " Einsteinium was discovered by Manhattan Project nuclear scientist Albert Ghiorso in the fallout from the detonation of the hydrogen bomb known as "Ivy Mike" in 1952. Bettmann/Contributor/Getty Images On Nov. 1, 1952, a team of American scientists working for the U.S. military threw the switch on a strange three-story structure codenamed "Ivy Mike." It was the worlds first hydrogen bomb, a new breed of nuclear weapon that was 700 times more powerful than the atomic bombs dropped on Jap...

18 Shares This 2018 photo shows the BELLA HTT laser system, which enables multipulse, high-energy-density photon sources for LaserNetUS and other experiments. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) has adopted and endorsed a new report that lays out a strategic plan for fusion energy and plasma science research over the next decade. The report has been two years in the making, gathering an unprecedented level of input and sup...

Date Time Advisory Committee Releases Strategic Plan for U.S. Fusion, Plasma Program This BELLA HTT laser system enables multi-pulse, high-energy-density photon sources for FES LaserNetUS and other experiments. (Credit: Berkeley Lab) The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee (FESAC) has adopted and endorsed a new report that lays out a strategic plan for fusion energy and plasma science research over the next decade. The report has been two years in the makin...

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Date Time Applying Quantum Computing to a Particle Process An ATLAS particle collision event display from 2018, showing the spray of particles (orange lines) emanating from the collision of protons, and the detector readout (squares and rectangles). (Credit: ATLAS collaboration) A team of researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) used a quantum computer to successfully simulate an aspect of particle collisions that is typically neglected in high-energy physics experime...

A study run out of UC Santa Barbara with Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley researchers found that gut microbes in goats could help create biofuels. 

How To Get To Zero Carbon Emissions By 2050 Regardless of the pathway we take to become carbon neutral by 2050, the actions needed in the next 10 years are the same. (Credit: Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab) Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the University of San Francisco (USF), and  Evolved Energy Research have developed a blueprint to reduce US CO2 emissions to zero by 2050. “By methodically increasing energy efficiency, switching to electric technologies, utilising clean el...

First conceived in the combustion of a hydrogen bomb on the South Pacific island of Elugelab in 1952, the heavy element einsteinium is one of the

DOE study: Net-zero emissions feasible at low cost Source: By Miranda Willson, E&E News reporter • Posted: Tuesday, February 2, 2021 A new report finds that eight actions are needed in the next decade to achieve net-zero carbon emissions affordably by 2050, including requiring new buildings to meet strict energy efficiency goals. Roy Kaltschmidt/Lawrence Berkeley Nat’l Lab The U.S. could achieve net-zero CO2 emissions by 2050 while spending less on energy relative to g...