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Science 18 July 1997:
Vol. 277. no. 5324, pp. 304 - 307
DOI: 10.1126/science.277.5324.304
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NATIONAL LABORATORIES:
A Harsh Light Falls on NIF

James Glanz

The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is meant to simulate aspects of nuclear explosions by training 192 of the world's most powerful laser beams on a speck of nuclear fuel. To be built at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, the $1.2 billion machine is a key element of science-based stockpile stewardship: a program to monitor and assess the aging nuclear stockpile without actually exploding any warheads. But critics question both NIF's relevance to weapons and whether it can meet its technical goals.

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