While standard PFTs require adjustment for SCI pts, forced vital capacity (FVC)and Forced Expiratory Volume in the first second (FEV1) and negative inspiratory force [NIF]) can be assessed ...

Back in December of 2022, a team of researchers at the USA’s National Ignition Facility (NIF) announced that they had exceeded ‘scientific breakeven’ with their laser-based inertial ...

The new center in Mianyang, as revealed through satellite images analyzed and published by Reuters, is designed to be “50% more imposing” than the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California.

This traces back to the NIF’s roots in the 1990s, when the stockpile stewardship program was set up as an alternative to nuclear weapons testing. Much of this research involves examining how ...

The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, of which both China and ... at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which operates NIF. ‘These days, I think you probably can build a facility ...

Although NIF's staff must be breathing a sigh of relief ... and opponents for existing laser fusion schemes. A forerunner test facility to HiPER, called PETAL, is being built in the Aquitaine ...