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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...