World’s Largest Laser Unveiled

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“Bringing Star Power to Earth”, a banner erected next to the $3.5 billion National Ignition Facility (NIF) which holds the record-breaking laser which is made up of 192 individual beams. Each one about 40 centimeters square. The laser fusion facility is designed to reduce tiny pellets of hydrogen into thermonuclear energy.

From NIF director, More energy will be produced by this ignition process than the amount of laser energy required to start it. This is the long-sought goal of energy gain that has been the goal of fusion researchers for more than half a century.

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