National Ignition Facility - Wikipedia
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 …
What Is the National Ignition Facility? | National Ignition Facility ...
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 …
National Ignition Facility & Photon Science
How did LLNL make history at the National Ignition Facility by achieving fusion ignition on Dec. 5, 2022? Our special expanded report, The Age of Ignition, explains how this was accomplished, …
How NIF Works | National Ignition Facility & Photon Science
The initial low-energy pulse is amplified by more than a quadrillion times to create 192 highly energetic, tightly focused laser beams that converge in the center of the Target Chamber (see …
National Ignition Facility - Encyclopedia Britannica
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 …
1.1. National Ignition Facility and Users
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 …
A shot for the ages: Fusion ignition breakthrough hailed as ‘one …
The monumental, first-ever demonstration of fusion ignition by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) National Ignition Facility (NIF) marks a potentially world-changing …
1.2. National Ignition Facility History
National Ignition Facility (NIF) aerial view, showing the two laser bays, switchyard, Target Chamber area, Operational Support Building, and Optics Assembly Building. The formal …
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieves fusion ignition
The target chamber of LLNL’s National Ignition Facility, where 192 laser beams delivered more than 2 million joules of ultraviolet energy to a tiny fuel pellet to create fusion ignition on Dec. 5, …
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
National Ignition Facility and Photon Science. With the world’s largest and highest-energy laser system, NIF and Photon Science spearheads inertial confinement fusion and high energy …