National Ignition Facility
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The National Ignition Facility is a laser-based inertial confinement fusion research facility, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, United States. NIF's mission
The National Ignition Facility, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
The target assembly for NIF's first integrated ignition experiment is mounted in the cryogenic target positioning system, or cryoTARPOS. The two triangle-shaped arms form a shroud around the cold target to protect it until they open five seconds before a shot.
Photo taken outside the target chamber
Photo taken inside the target chamber
Fusion energy gain factor
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A fusion energy gain factor, usually expressed with the symbol Q, is the ratio of fusion power produced in a nuclear fusion reactor to the power required to maintain the plasma in a steady state. The
National Ignition Facility
…facility, 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…
The explosion of the Ivy Mike hydrogen bomb. The hydrogen bomb was the first device able to achieve fusion energy gain factor significantly larger than 1.