National Ignition Facility - Wikipedia
WEBThe National Ignition Facility (NIF) is a laser-based inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research device, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, United States. NIF's mission is to achieve fusion ignition with high energy gain.
How NIF Works | National Ignition Facility & Photon Science
WEBNIF’s laser beams can create nuclear fusion in the laboratory by generating the same kinds of temperatures and pressures that exist in the cores of stars and giant planets and inside nuclear weapons (see Anatomy of a NIF Shot).
What Is the National Ignition Facility? | National Ignition Facility ...
WEBNIF is the world’s most precise and reproducible laser system. It precisely guides, amplifies, reflects, and focuses 192 powerful laser beams into a target about the size of a pencil eraser in a few billionths of a second, delivering more than 2 million joules of ultraviolet energy and 500 trillion watts of peak power.
Achieving Fusion Ignition | National Ignition Facility & Photon …
WEBAchieving ignition was an unprecedented, game-changing breakthrough that advances the science of ensuring the reliability of the nation’s nuclear stockpile (see “NIF and Stockpile Stewardship”) as well as the potential use of fusion as a safe, clean, and virtually unlimited energy source.
National Ignition Facility (NIF) | History, Goal, Experiments, & Facts
WEBNational Ignition Facility, laser-based fusion research device, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, U.S. A major goal for the device is to create a self-renewing, or energy-producing, …
US nuclear-fusion lab enters new era: achieving ‘ignition ... - Nature
WEBDec 15, 2023 · In December 2022, after more than a decade of effort and frustration, scientists at the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) announced that they had set a world record by producing a fusion...
Inside the Nuclear Fusion Facility That Changed the World
WEBJan 11, 2024 · Since it opened in 2009, NIF has pursued one approach to the challenge: forcing those hydrogen atoms together by hitting them with powerful laser beams with the goal of reaching ignition, as...
National Ignition Facility experiment puts researchers at threshold …
WEBThe experiment was enabled by focusing laser light from NIF — the size of three football fields — onto a target the size of a BB that produces a hot-spot the diameter of a human hair, generating more than 10 quadrillion watts of fusion power for 100 trillionths of …
Here’s how scientists reached nuclear fusion ‘ignition’ for the first …
WEBFeb 16, 2024 · One of nuclear fusion’s biggest advances wouldn’t have happened without some impeccable scientific artistry. In December 2022, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California...
Nuclear-fusion lab achieves ‘ignition’: what does it mean? - Nature
WEBDec 13, 2022 · Nuclear-fusion reactor smashes energy record. NIF scientists made multiple changes before the latest laser shot, based in part on analysis and computer modelling of previous experiments.