Sentences with phrase «ignition facility»

Although the National Ignition Facility (NIF) news page remains silent on the matter, the BBC reports that an NIF experiment in late September achieved the first step towards harnessing the power of the sun here on earth — they got more energy out of a fuel burn than was put into it.

External Reviewer, Department of Energy Study on «The National Ignition Facility and the Issue of Nonproliferation,» August 1995.

More on the National Ignition Facility First Nuclear Fusion by 2011?

Lawrence Livermore's National Ignition Facility, which was officially dedicated on Friday, is a $ 3.5 billion dollar project that will unfold over many years.

Two major fusion research reactors are being built over the next decade — the international ITER magnetic confinement reactor (for $ 5 to 10 billion) and the US National Ignition Facility (NIF — $ 2 to 5 billion) to study «inertial confinement».

There are two approaches to fusion energy, inertial confinement (the National Ignition Facility or NIF at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, for example) and magnetic confinement (the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor or ITER, for example).

Setting aside specific issues related to the laser ignition facility, I have a different view.

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.

The National Ignition Facility has been used to compress deuterium - tritium to an average areal density of ~ 1.0 ± 0.1 g cm -LRB--2), which is 67 % of the ignition requirement.

The Radiochemical Analysis of Gaseous Samples (RAGS) is a true trash to treasure story, turning debris from the National Ignition Facility's (NIF) target chamber into valuable data that helps to shape future experiments.

PEEL is used at the Laboratory's National Ignition Facility for the daily fabrication of membranes as thin as 30 nanometers that serve as compliant, load - bearing elements for laser targets.

In 2017, after more than eight years of operation, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) reached its epic 2,000 th shot.

The experiments were conducted at the LLNL's National Ignition Facility (NIF).

From 1999 - 2006 Warner served as a senior manager in the National Ignition Facility Programs Directorate.

As the AX Division Leader, Verdon was responsible for the management of a scientific effort that is at the core of the Secondary Nuclear Design Program and the scientific grand challenge effort of achieving ignition at the National Ignition Facility.

Aug. 18, 2017 - From sunset to sunrise, while others slumber, the «Owls» of the National Ignition Facility nurture the world's most energetic laser through some of its most productive hours.

Wisoff came to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the fall of 2001 as a deputy associate project manager for systems engineering at the National Ignition Facility.

Methods range from squeezing plasma with magnetic fields at Sandia to firing lasers at capsules filled with plasma at Livermore's National Ignition Facility.

Experiments using the OMEGA laser at the University's Laboratory of Laser Energetics (LLE) have created the conditions capable of producing a fusion yield that's five times higher than the current record laser - fusion energy yield, as long as the relative conditions produced at LLE are reproduced and scaled up at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

Budil has more than 27 years of scientific research and management experience at LLNL across a wide range of Laboratory programs, including Global Security, Weapons and Complex Integration, the National Ignition Facility, and Physical and Life Sciences.

Such experiments are carried out in places such as the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California.

The collaboration will study fusion in a relatively unexplored intermediate density regime between the lower - than - air density of magnetic confinement fusion (MCF) that is studied at the ITER project in southern France, and the greater - than - solid density of laser - driven inertial confinement fusion (ICF) at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Under the arrangement, the DOE's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) will design a diagnostic system to provide high - resolution analysis of research on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL).

I went to NIF [the National Ignition Facility in California] as well.

Ma currently serves as the X-Ray Analysis Group lead for LLNL's Inertial Confinement Fusion Program, and leads several fusion experimental campaigns fielded on the National Ignition Facility.

May 25, 2017 - A technology originally developed to smooth out and pattern high - powered laser beams for the National Ignition Facility (NIF) can be used to 3D print metal objects faster than ever before, according to a new study by Lawrence Livermore researchers.

They open a way to more complete astrophysical experimentations in the laboratory using the most powerful Megajoule lasers as the National Ignition Facility (NIF) or Laser MegaJoule (LMJ).

In his time at LLNL, he has performed extensive and formative work in the National Ignition Facility (NIF) program areas, including designing inertial confinement fusion chambers, targets and lasers, as well as developing computer optimization software.

He has continuously demonstrated technical leadership, brings teams to success in efforts ranging from leading proposal teams for projects like UltraPERL and Visibuilding to his current role leading critical laser development at the National Ignition Facility.

LIVERMORE, Calif. — In the early morning hours of Aug. 13, Lawrence Livermore's National Ignition Facility (NIF) focused all 192 of its ultra-powerful laser beams on a tiny deuterium - tritium filled capsule.

Heebner also served as lead scientist for the front end of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) laser system.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) today announced that the National Ignition Facility (NIF) recently completed its first integrated ignition experiment.

While this superbeam isn't quite as «super» as the one depicted in science fiction, it stands as an important achievement — for the first time, nine of the National Ignition Facility's (NIF) 192 laser beams were combined to produce a directed pulse of light that was nearly four times the energy of any of the individual beams.

Experiments on the accelerator will complement research under way at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), part of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Beamlines entering the lower hemisphere of the National Ignition Facility's target chamber.

But the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Livermore, California, is still a long way from sparking a self - sustaining fusion reaction with an overall gain in energy — a process called ignition.

The $ 3.5 billion National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Livermore, California, is slated to begin fusion tests by 2012, after 15 years of construction and development.

U.S. experiments such as the $ 3.5 billion National Ignition Facility are losing funding (SN: 4/20/13, p. 26), while a $ 20 billion international project called ITER is delayed and over budget.

The huge National Ignition Facility aims to achieve fusion reactions using the world's most powerful lasers.

One of which is that the breakeven that the National Ignition Facility is going to be achieving is really just the energy that is going directly into the reaction.

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — This week, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California announced an important milestone on the road to achieving ignition, which could lead to producing controlled fusion reactions here on Earth.

Engineers can again prepare to light up the world's most powerful laser facility, the National Ignition Facility at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

The query, spurred by the announcement last week that the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California had reached an important milestone on the road to fusion energy, elicited some fascinating responses.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA Take a tour of the National Ignition Facility, a huge new nuclear fusion reactor.

In the heart of the National Ignition Facility (NIF), a technician inspects the optics assembly where 192 powerful laser beams will zap a pellet filled with deuterium and tritium, two heavy forms of hydrogen.

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).

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

The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California is at the forefront of efforts to harness the power of fusion.

Worldwide efforts to harness fusion — the power source of the sun and stars — for energy on Earth currently focus on two multibillion dollar facilities: the ITER fusion reactor in France and the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California.

That conclusion will please many scientists in the field who have been concerned that the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory — the world's largest and most advanced inertial fusion facility — was poised to dominate the U.S. research effort.