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Fusion Factory Starts Up Saturday, February 28, 2009 - Anuradha Menon Home >> Headlines >> Physics
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Later this month in California, construction will be completed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility, or NIF, the world’s most powerful laser system—12 years and roughly US $3.5 billion after it was begun. The plan is for NIF’s 192 neodymium lasers to create controlled moments of fusion by focusing their energy on 3-millimeter-wide pellets of deuterium and tritium. Together, the lasers will produce a 500‑terawatt bolt of energy. (source: spectrum.ieee.org)
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