National Ignition Facility (NIF). Computer artwork showing the target (sphere,centre) inside the target chamber of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,California,USA. This site is attempting to initiate and control hydrogen fusion as a sustainable energy source for future use. The beams from 192 lasers are focused onto a 2-millimetre-wide capsule (the target) of deuterium-tritium (DT) gas in the target chamber,with a total energy of 1.8 megajoules. The first experiments were performed here in 2009,after more than a decade of construction | |
Licence : | Droits gérés |
Crédit: | Science Photo Library / Schiessl, Stefan |
Taille de l’image : | 4200 px × 4200 px |
Model Release : | Non requis |
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