National Ignition Facility
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title:
National Ignition Facility
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The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is a laser-based inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research device, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, United States. NIF's mission is to achieve fusion ignition with high energy gain. It achieved the first instance of scientific breakeven controlled fusion in an experiment on December 5, 2022, with an energy gain factor of 1.5. It supports nuclear weapon maintenance and design by studying the behavior of matter under
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American nuclear fusion facility
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility
date created:
2003-10-09T06:00:22Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T07:55:42Z
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