Chief Scientist, Inertia Enterprises; Principal Designer, NIF Ignition Experiments
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Co-founded Inertia Enterprises in 2024 while continuing national security research at LLNL under a federal Outside Business Agreement; Inertia raised $450M in February 2026
NIF achieved ignition for the 11th time on June 20, 2026, producing 7.9 megajoules from 2.08 megajoules of laser energy. The Department of Energy approved a laser upgrade in April that will push NIF's peak power from 2.2 to 2.6 megajoules, which would allow the 8.6-megajoule yield record to be broken.
Updated Jul 17
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