Wednesday, November 12, 2008

National Ignition Facility

Creating a miniature star on Earth: that's the goal of the National Ignition Facility (NIF), the world's largest laser.

The National Ignition Facility out at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California is the size of a football stadium and equipped with the largest laser in the world. The laser will be done by 2009 and the facility scheduled to begin testing in 2010, the folks running the show have set an ambitious timetable of realizing fusion power by 2011.

https://lasers.llnl.gov/

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