Laser Megajoule beamline. Array of mirrors in one of the laser beamlines in the Laser Integration Line (LIL) the initial form of the Laser Megajoule (

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Laser Megajoule beamline. Array of mirrors in one of the laser beamlines in the Laser Integration Line (LIL) the initial form of the Laser Megajoule (LMJ). Conditions here must be kept extremely clean. If damaged, the mirrors are changed by robots. The LMJ is an experimental nuclear fusion device being built near Bordeaux, France, using the inertial confinement fusion (ICF) method. It uses 240 laser beams and megajoules of power to heat a target to the point where fusion and power generation occurs. Construction of the LMJ started with the LIL (8 lasers), completed in 2002 and due to be expanded into the full LMJ by 2012. Photographed at the Le Barp facility of the French Atomic Agency (CEA).

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