The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is a laser-based inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research device, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, United …

The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is the size of a sports stadium—three football fields could fit inside. NIF’s unique energy and power enable cutting-edge research to help keep America …

In a sense NIF, the world’s highest-energy laser system, is one big laser amplifier. As with most large lasers, NIF uses intense flashes of white light from giant flashlamps to “pump” electrons …

Achieving ignition—producing more fusion energy than the amount of laser energy delivered to the NIF target—provides new opportunities for stockpile stewardship applications; NIF’s …

2023年12月15日 · In December 2022, after more than a decade of effort and frustration, scientists at the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) announced that they had set a world record by …

2008年7月1日 · The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is a 192-beam laser facility that will produce 1.8 MJ and 500 TW of ultraviolet light for performing ignition target experiments. NIF is the …

National Ignition Facility (NIF) aerial view, showing the two laser bays, switchyard, Target Chamber area, Operational Support Building, and Optics Assembly Building. The formal …

The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is an operational multi-megajoule laser facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, CA. In March 2009, construction of NIF …

Supporting stockpile stewardship through a wide range of experiments including study of fusion ignition; and operating as a national user facility for high-energy-density science.

National Ignition Facility, laser-based fusion research device, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, U.S. A major goal for the device is to create a self …