Our May Insights Q&A covered the NIF announcement of energy gain in December 2022. In this session we get 3 different perspectives of the breakthrough.
Dr. Denise Hinkel is a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and serves as a Team Lead for predictive capability within the Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) Programme.
Kelli is a Design Physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She completed her PhD in Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University in 2019.
Radha Bahukutumbi is currently a Distinguished Scientist at the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE). We asked her to tell us more about her work.