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NIF Breaks Ground

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At a ceremony attended by US Secretary of Energy Federico Peña, ground was broken for the National Ignition Facility, the centerpiece of a program to maintain the US nuclear arsenal without nuclear testing.The $1.2 billion facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California will house a 192-beam laser and will stretch the length of two football fields. There, researchers will create brief bursts of self-sustaining fusion reactions, allowing them to study nuclear weapons physics without conducting controversial underground tests. The modular design will allow for initial...Read full article

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