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For the first time in history, scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility, or NIF, achieved a net energy gain through nuclear fusion, a crucial breakthrough ...

During construction for the National Ignition Facility in 1997, workers unearthed a remarkably complete 16,000-year-old ...

The colliding planar shock (CPS) platform should deliver precise measurements of the characteristics of warm dense matter (WDM), a state of matter exhibiting properties of both solids and plasmas.

In December, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory made headlines worldwide. Scientists at the NIF performed the first ...

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U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm (R) is joined by National Nuclear Security Administration head Jill Hruby and other officials at the Department of Energy headquarters to announce a ...

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In July, scientists at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California generated a burst of energy by bombarding a pellet of hydrogen with 192 lasers, ...

Livermore’s National Ignition Facility has made major breakthroughs in the push to bring nuclear fusion — the reaction that powers the sun — to Earth’s electric grids. So it made sense that the city ...

During the Cold War years, one of the Department of Energy's (DOE's) principal priorities was the design, testing, and production of nuclear weapons, with ancillary responsibilities related to ...