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National Ignition Facility

A large, modern facility with red lighting and a central circular structure, likely part of the National Ignition Facility, showcasing its impressive scale and advanced technology.

A laser-driven fusion facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, occupying a building the size of three football fields. Its 192 lasers converge on a peppercorn-sized capsule of deuterium-tritium fuel, compressing it for billionths of a second. On 5 December 2022 it produced 3.15 megajoules of fusion energy from a 2.05-megajoule laser pulse — the first laboratory ignition in history.

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