Toward limitless energy: National Ignition Facility focus of symposium, Aug. 19-20
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 - 09:14
in Physics & Chemistry
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19, 2009 -- Chemists are preparing to play an important but often unheralded role in determining the success of one of the largest and most important scientific experiments in history -- next year's initial attempts at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) to produce the world's first controlled nuclear fusion reaction.