Fusion & Beyond -- World's Most Powerful Laser
Date: Monday, March 29, 2004 @ 20:50:52 UTC
Topic: Science
By BRAD KVEDERIS, Times-Herald staff writer
LIVERMORE - For decades, fusion power has remained an elusive Holy Grail for the scientific community - the stuff of science fiction novels or Darth Vader's "Death Star."
But not at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's stadium-sized National Ignition Facility (NIF). There, research teams hope to gain access to sustained fusion, and other scientific firsts, for the first time outside a Hollywood movie set or a thermonuclear weapons test.
Livermore lab sets sights on world's largest laser
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