The world's largest private laser just fired up in race to make fusion power real

The world's largest private laser just fired up in race to make fusion power real

Xcimer Energy switched on Phoenix, the world's largest private 1-kilojoule laser, to test commercial laser-driven fusion. Xcimer's architecture—2 beamlines vs NIF's 192—cuts manufacturing costs for grid-scale fusion viability by the mid-2030s.