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Deck-Plate Science: A Day in the Life at Omega

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A laser fusion research lab focuses militarylike discipline and academic freedom on a single target: science.

Daniel S. Burgess, News Editor

Three days a week, the staff at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics in Rochester, N.Y., punches in at 4 a.m. to prepare the Omega laser for its three test shots. At 8 a.m., the operators from the instrument's five control stations meet with that day's presiding shot director for a prewatch briefing, a concept borrowed from the Navy. The meeting bears the elements of a ritual, as each operator reports the status of her or his area and any problems that were found in the test shots: Shot director: Alignment, are we up to spec? Alignment operator: Check. Funded...Read full article

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