Tag: "fusion"

Starship Math: Are the Stars Our Destiny?

Starship Math: Are the Stars Our Destiny?

What would it take to send a spaceship to another star, all science fiction devices aside?

 
Ben Burress

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The National Ignition Facility: An Energetic Defense

The National Ignition Facility: An Energetic Defense

For all of the laser's exciting aspirations and promise of new technology, the press' reaction to NIF throughout the twelve years of its construction has been often lukewarm, and at worst scornful.

 
Christopher Smallwood

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Producer's Notes - Super Laser at the National Ignition Facility

Producer's Notes - Super Laser at the National Ignition Facility

Inside the National Ignition Facility. Lawrence Livermore National Lab is building the world's largest laser. Actually, the National Ignition Facility won't have only one laser beam. It will use 192 world-class lasers, all firing simultaneously. In a few billionths of a second about 500 trillion watts, which is nearly 1000 times the power generated in [...]

 
Chris Bauer

Post on Apr 15, 2008 by

Super Laser

Super Laser

It's one of the most expensive high-tech projects the United States has ever attempted, and some say it will never work. QUEST visits the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, where scientists will soon aim the world's largest laser at a target the size of a pencil eraser. The goal? Nuclear fusion — and, they say, [...]

 
Amy Standen

Post on Jan 10, 2008 by