World’s largest laser picks up the pace

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The Final Optics Damage Inspection system is mounted on a retractible arm inside the 30-meter diameter NIF target chamber.
The Final Optics Damage Inspection system is mounted on a retractible arm inside the 30-meter diameter NIF target chamber.

With their target completion date just a year and a half away, scientists and technicians at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) are quickening their pace to install and test the rest of NIF’s 192 lasers and prepare for a new round of preliminary experiments in 2008.


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