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What does NIF stand for?

National Ignition Facility


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no-notice interoperability exercise (US DoD)
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Samples in periodicals archive:
The super laser, known officially as the National Ignition Facility, was unveiled Friday at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory about 50 miles east of San Francisco.
According to a report in Fox News, the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will focus 192 laser beams on a hydrogen pellet the size of a bead, heating it to incredible temperatures in an attempt to recreate the power of the sun.
Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have completed construction of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) and successfully fired all 192 laser beams simultaneously into a test cell.
The acting director of the laser program, George Miller, said he could not speculate on the size of the cost overruns or delays for the National Ignition Facility (NIF), a 192-beam laser designed to help study the thermonuclear properties of nuclear weapons without actually testing them.
The program's crown jewel is the National Ignition Facility (NIF), a $1.
Results from this research may well have a significant impact on the design of the planned National Ignition Facility (SN: 11/5/94, p.
Parsons is pleased to announce that it will participate in the dedication of the Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Ignition Facility (NIF) on May 29, 2009.
000 for Facility Operations and Target Production of which $13,310,000 above the request is for National Ignition Facility operations and target production, and $15,000,000 above the request is to support single shift operations on the Z machine and to explore advanced concepts including $2,000,000 for linear transformer driver concepts.

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