# \#inertial-confinement **URL:** https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/tag/inertial-confinement/3405.md [Latest](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/latest.md) · [Categories](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/categories.md) · [Tags](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/tags.md) --- ## [National Ignition Facility Achieves Fusion Ignition](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/national-ignition-facility-achieves-fusion-ignition/2446)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\ **Replies:** 11\ **Last updated:** [1 March 2023 04:18 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/national-ignition-facility-achieves-fusion-ignition/2446 "2023-03-01T04:18:30Z")
On 2022-12-05 the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California fired 192 pulsed laser beams delivering 2.05 megajoules of energy at a tiny capsule of deuterium-tritium fusi…