ON May 28 and 29, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will be hosting distinguished visitors from around the world for the dedication of the National Ignition Facility (NIF). Completion of the facility and commissioning of NIF’s 192 laser beams is a pivotal event in the long march from the invention of the laser 50 years ago to the use of lasers to produce energy through a process called inertial confinement fusion (ICF).
Experiments are about to begin in which NIF’s 192 laser beams will implode a peppercorn-size c
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