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Lasers Continue Across Nuclear Fission Threshold

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Dr. James P. Smith

Scientists at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory have demonstrated that today's powerful lasers can replace nuclear accelerators in some experimental studies of nuclear and plasma physics. Along with more general experiments, they used a terawatt laser to create plasma-induced gamma rays with sufficient energy to initiate nuclear fission. Another group of researchers achieved nuclear fission with a petawatt laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif. Although there were some differences in the research, the experiments -- both detailed in the Jan. 31 issue of...Read full article

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    Published: April 2000
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