DocumentCode
1179506
Title
Fusion Factory Starts Up
Author
Jones, W.D.
Volume
46
Issue
3
fYear
2009
fDate
3/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
11
Lastpage
12
Abstract
Later this month in California, construction will be completed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory´s National Ignition Facility, or NIF, the world´s most powerful laser system 12 years and roughly US $3.5 billion after it was begun. The plan is for NIF¿s 192 neodymium lasers to create controlled moments of fusion by focusing their energy on 3-millimeter-wide pellets of deuterium and tritium.
Keywords
Deuterium; Ignition; Laboratories; Laser fusion; Neodymium; Optical control; Power lasers; Production facilities;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Spectrum, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9235
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MSPEC.2009.4795439
Filename
4795439
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