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National Ignition Facility Fires 192-Beam Pulse
An anonymous reader writes "The construction and test firing of the National Ignition Facility have been completed. NIF was designed as the first facility ever to achieve self-sustaining nuclear fusion and, in particular, to reach the point of ignition in which more energy is generated from the reaction than went into creating it. While the recent 192-beam pulse only produced 80 kilojoules worth of energy, all signs point to NIF being able to reach an order of magnitude higher (PDF) than that in the coming year."
NIFfing sharks with NIFfing laser beams attached to their head!
You can't take the sky from me.
Frickin' laser beam? Check!
...but where are the sharks?
Paleotechnologist and connoisseur of pretty shiny things.