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Ultra-Powerful Laser To Be Built In Romania

Posted by timothy on from the no-mr-bond-I-expect-you-to-fry dept.

cripkd writes "The 3rd pillar from the ELI program was given the go ahead Tuesday: 'In Romania, Magurele, the ELI pillar will focus on laser-based nuclear physics. For this purpose, an intense gamma-ray source is foreseen by coupling a high-energy particle accelerator to a high-power laser.' Here are some specs and details about why this is not your regular key-chain laser."

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  1. Fuck the EU by Blaskowicz · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Couldn't slashdot use an icon that looks like a particle accelerator, or a laser, or gears and boiling vial, whatever? Something other than the Fourth Reich's banner. You might as well have used a vampire icon, because it's in Romania.

    Sorry for the rant. Sunday 30th September is a day of protests against the european stability mechanism treaty, I wanted to mention it. National governments will have to ask permission to spend their money, from an unelected and unaccountable shadow entity i.e. democracy goes away and we get fucked again.