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<p>Félicie Albert,&nbsp;Director of the Jupiter Laser Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (<a href="https://www.llnl.gov/">LLNL</a&gt;) in California, delivered a guest lecture on 4 December 2023 to several hundred members of the ITER community. She returned to the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.iter.org/newsline/-/3828">achievement of fusion ignition</a>&nbsp;at the National Ignition Facility in December 2022—a first-of-class milestone that had reverberated around the world and that has been replicated several times since—and brought the audience up to date on future plans for the facility.</p> <p>"The National Ignition Facility has not yet reached its full potential; we have many plans for the future," she said. Increasing the energy of the laser, achieving more routine implosions of the deuterium-tritium target, and sustaining the facility through the maintenance and replacement of components are all on the list. As for the longer-term prospects of designing and building a fusion power plant based on laser technology (inertial fusion), she described the many scientific and technological challenges that would have to be overcome.</p> <p>Director Albert also took time to describe other laser facilities at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where research activities are underway to investigate particle acceleration in laser-driven plasmas as a way to generate x-rays that have unique properties and that can be used for non-destructive examination of materials or the probing of matter in extreme conditions.</p> <p><em>Félicie Albert is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and the recipient of numerous awards including the APS Katherine E. Weimer Award (2017) and the Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineers (2019).</em></p>