Sentences with phrase «powerful laser facility»
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.
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Meanwhile in February the U.S. - government funded National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California, known for housing the world's most powerful laser, reported experiments indicating they were close to achieving «net gain,» where more total energy comes out than was put in — a goal that has eluded scientists for six decades.
Li says other countries need not feel left in the shadows as the world's most powerful laser turns on, because the SEL will operate as an international user facility.
Known as the National Ignition Facility, the proposed laser is a giant, much more powerful than any laser that has ever been built before.
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.
The huge National Ignition Facility aims to achieve fusion reactions using the world's most powerful lasers.
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).
The laser itself, the most powerful ever built, exceeded its design specifications and the rest of the facility also meets its specs.