Nuclear engineer Andrea Kritcher is one of TIME's 100 most influential people of 2023. Find out why TIME100
April 13, 2023 6:32 AM EDTuclear fusion could provide limitless clean energy—if scientists can master the tricky physics of smashing hydrogen atoms together. Afterat the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, Calif., just barely failed to generate more energy than was put into it, the facility’s lead laser engineer approached Andrea Kritcher, the principal experimental designer.
The engineers had managed to squeeze a bit more energy out of the gigantic lasers that the facility uses to spark the reaction, and it was up to Kritcher to figure out how to use those improvements in service of a dream of generating unlimited, emission-free power. After more work, Kritcher’s insights helped bring about the first-ever controlled fusion ignition in December 2022, a holy grail in physics research that had eluded scientists for decades, and another step on the road to fusion power.
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