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National Ignition Facility experiment achieves record-breaking yield

August 18, 2021, 9:30AMNuclear News

A color-enhanced photograph of the NIF target bay. (Photo: LLNL/Damien Jemison)

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is celebrating the yield from an experiment at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) of more than 1.3 megajoules of energy—eight times more than the yield from experiments conducted this spring and 25 times more than NIF’s 2018 record yield.

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Nuclear Matinee: Can We Make a Star on Earth?

November 1, 2013, 6:57PMANS Nuclear Cafe

The Sun is powered by the strongest source of energy in the universe - nuclear fusion - and teams of scientists and engineers around the world are working toward harnessing fusion to power the long-term future of civilization. In effect... they are working to "create a star" on earth.

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