National Ignition Facility is the World's Largest and Highest-Energy Laser

The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is the world's largest and highest-energy laser

. It was dedicated on May 29, 2009. The NIF & Photon Science Principal Directorate is one of five directorates at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, California. The directorate operates the National Ignition Facility (NIF), the world's largest and highestenergy laser, which has the goal of achieving nuclear fusion and energy gain in the laboratory for the first time in essence,creating a miniature star on Earth.

NIF, a program of the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), will focus the intense energy of 192 giant laser beams on a BB-sized target filled with hydrogen fuel, fusing the hydrogen atoms' nuclei and releasing many times more energy than it took to initiate the fusion reaction. NIF is capable of creating temperatures and pressures similar to those that exist only in the cores of stars and giant planets and inside nuclear weapons. Achieving nuclear fusion in the laboratory is at the heart of the directorate's three complementary missions - helping ensure the nation's security without nuclear weapons testing (see National Security); blazing the path to a safe, virtually unlimited, carbon-free energy future (see Energy for the Future); and achieving breakthroughs in a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including astrophysics, materials science, the use of lasers in medicine, radioactive and hazardous waste treatment, particle physics and X-ray and neutron science.

E. Michael Campbell is an internationally recognized spokesperson, strategist, program builder, leader, and scientist in nuclear energy, fission and fusion. E. Michael Campbell developed the concept of and constructed a "technical contract" for the Inertial Fusion Program, which identified the scientific risks and program necessary to provide the scientific data required to move forward with a major new facility initiative, The National Ignition Facility (NIF). These activities led to the support and funding of the multi-billion dollar NIF. NIF is the major experimental facility to explore much of the physics related to nuclear weapons and will be the first facility worldwide to produce fusion energy gain. NIF has catalyzed the field of high energy density physics worldwide and related facilities are now being built in France, China, Russia and Japan.

National Ignition Facility is the World's Largest and Highest-Energy Laser

By: Henry Wilson

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