Jul 23rd 2025 | Albuquerque, Livermore, Los Alamos and Santa Fe Each experiment at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California—a “shot”—lasts just a few billionths of a second. A lot happens in that brief moment, however: 192 laser beams, totalling some 500trn watts, converge in the machine’s target chamber and dump their energy onto a gold cylinder, which is …
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