NIF Target Chamber Construction, 2000
The 10-meter diameter target chamber of the National Ignition Facility was assembled from 10-centimeter-thick aluminum panels. Holes in the chamber provide access for the laser beams and viewing ports for NIF diagnostics. The National Ignition Facility, or NIF, is a powerful laser-based inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research device, located at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. NIF uses powerful lasers to heat and compress a small amount of hydrogen fuel to the point where nuclear fusion reactions take place. NIF's mission is to achieve fusion ignition with high energy gain, and to support nuclear weapon maintenance and design by studying the behavior of matter under the conditions found within nuclear weapons. NIF is the largest and most energetic ICF device built to date, and the largest laser in the world.
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