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National Ignition Facility
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National Ignition Facility
The
National Ignition Facility
, or
NIF
, is a large
laser
-based
inertial confinement fusion
(ICF) research device, located at the
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
in
Livermore, California
. NIF uses lasers to heat and compress a small amount of
hydrogen fuel
to the point where
nuclear fusion
reactions take place. NIF's mission is to achieve
fusion ignition
with high
energy gain
, and to support
nuclear weapon
maintenance
and design by studying the
behavior of matter
under the conditions found within nuclear weapons. NIF is the largest and most energetic ICF device built to date, and the largest laser in the world.
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