The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), a US state-sponsored hub for nuclear weapons and materials research in California, is tapping AI and next-gen supercomputers to revolutionize inertial confinement fusion experiments.
Inertial confinement fusion recreates the power of the sun by using 192 lasers to blast a tiny hydrogen fuel pellet from all directions. These pellets, known as fusion targets, are central to experiments that mimic the extreme conditions of a nuclear blast without an actual detonation.
LLNL’s new tool, the Multi-Agent Design Assistant (MADA), uses AI agents running on two government-owned supercomputers – El Capitan and Tuolumne – to automate the complex design of fusion targets and accelerate breakthroughs in nuclear research.
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