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July 12, 2012National Ignition Facility Makes History
With Record 500-terawatt Shot
Fifteen years of work by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility (NIF) team paid off on July 5 with a historic record-breaking laser shot. The NIF laser system of 192 beams delivered more than 500 trillion watts (terawatts or TW) of peak power and 1.85 megajoules (MJ) of ultraviolet laser light to its target.
Photons & Fusion Newsletter
Photons & Fusion is a monthly review of National Ignition Facility & Photon Science science and technology.
Status Update
A monthy report on experimental progress at NIF.
Journal Articles
Hundreds of articles have been written by and for scientific journals and review publications describing the National Ignition Facility and other laser programs at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
