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Vicariously Tour the National Ignition Facility

Posted by timothy on from the semi-disturbing-place-name dept.

Dave Bullock writes "The National Ignition Facility (NIF) has been discussed several times over the years on Slashdot and just recently fired all of its 192 lasers. LLNL scientists predict NIF will attain ignition (controlled nuclear explosion) in 2010. For now, take a look at the photos I shot of NIF for Wired.com when I toured it earlier this year."

2 of 97 comments (clear)

  1. Re:"controlled nuclear explosion" by warpuck · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It is more likely to produce a black hole in a bank account.

  2. Re:Running windows!! by im_thatoneguy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well the facility only needs to run for a few milliseconds so reliability isn't terribly important.