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The NIF & Photon Science Principal Directorate is one of five directorates atLawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, California. The directorate operates the National Ignition Facility (NIF), the world´s largest and highest–energy 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:
The NIF construction project, completed in March 2009, was a national collaboration among government, industry and academia and many industrial partners throughout the nation.
(Read More about the NIF at https://lasers.llnl.gov/about/)
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