Just before 2 a.m., the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Livermore fired all 192 of its high-power laser beams into a target chamber for the very first time. Each beamline carried a pulse of ...

This traces back to the NIF’s roots in the 1990s ... making it an important part of the same nuclear stewardship program. Target chamber at the National Ignition Facility of LLNL in 2008.