Sentences with phrase «giant laser facility»

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That is where two giant facilities in Louisiana and Washington state come in, operating together as the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO).

Known as the National Ignition Facility, the proposed laser is a giant, much more powerful than any laser that has ever been built before.

Sandia's dark - horse entry in the fusion race still consumes far more energy than it releases, but that is also true of the more conventional — and more expensive — approaches to fusion, such as bombarding encapsulated fuel with laser light from every direction (as the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, Calif., does) or using giant superconducting magnets to heat levitating plasma for minutes at a time inside a doughnut - shaped chamber (as the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor in France may do when it's completed around 2027).

The recent failure to meet a congressional deadline at the National Ignition Facility — a giant laser - centered fusion project at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory — generated commentary, including from the editorial page of The New York Times, arguing that it was time to shift limited federal resources away from this particular long - pass approach.