Experts in the United States are very serious about obtaining nuclear fusion, a method of obtaining energy that would dwarf the output of all others. The National Ignition Facility was designed for this very purpose, and work there is progressing fast. The issue with this endeavor is that experts want to obtain contr... |
4 November 2010
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A recent test run of the world's most powerful laser proved that the instrument works, and raised hopes that scientists at the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) will achieve nuclear fusion within two years. The firing of the laser was the first-ever complete dry run of the machine, which saw the laser being ai... |
13 October 2010
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One of the main problems plaguing the development of viable nuclear fusion technologies is the fact that a host of very radioactive by-products are obtained as this type of reactions take place. Granted, physicists have yet to construct the large-scale reactors that could see atomic nuclei fused together to produce e... |
2 April 2010
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The US National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced yesterday that scientists at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and the National Ignition Facility (NIF) managed to obtain the most powerful burst of laser in the world. The shot, which was delivered to ... |
28 January 2010
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) are currently using the world's most advanced supercomputer to assist colleague physicists in determining the best way to go about obtaining nuclear fusion. The first machine to break the petaflop barrier is now being us... |
29 October 2009
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The National Ignition Facility in California is the largest laser instrument in the world, and it's scheduled to come online later this year. The beginning of scientific experiments at the laboratory will also mean that the first artificial star will be created on the planet, BBC News reports. That is to say, ex... |
24 May 2009
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Recreating the conditions that exist within the Sun has been a long-term desire for physicists, and it would appear that scientists in the US are very close to finally fulfilling this dream. The country's National Ignition Facility (NIF) is, according to officials, operational and ready for action. The device is... |
31 March 2009
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Scheduled to start the preliminary experiments in 2008, the technicians at the National Ignition Facility, or NIF for short, double the pace to finalize the installation of the rest of the 192 lasers as the construction completion date is only a year and a half away.Out of the 144 beamlines that are used by NIF to in... |
30 November 2007
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