Following the press conference, a technical panel of National Ignition Facility (NIF) scientists convened to discuss details of the achievement and what ignition might mean for the future of fusion energy. NIF’s Program Director for Weapon Physics and Design Mark Herrmann (far left) moderated the panel. Panelists included (from l-r) Principal Experimentalist Alex Zylstra, Principal Designer and Team Lead for Integrated Modeling Annie Kritcher, Chief Engineer for the NIF Laser System Jean-Michel Di Nicola, Target Fabrication Program Manager Michael Stadermann, Team Lead for Stagnation Science Arthur Pak and Tammy Ma, lead for the Laboratory’s Inertial Fusion Energy Institutional Initiative. Watch the panel talk here.