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EPISODE · Apr 15, 2008 · 9 MIN

Super Laser at the National Ignition Facility

from KQED Science Video Podcast · host KQED

It's the largest laser beam in the world and it's being built in the Bay Area. The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will shoot tremendous bursts of energy at an area the size of a pencil eraser. The goal? To create fusion ignition, a potential clean energy source for the 21st century.

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