Magnetic Fields Could Boost NIF Implosions
LLNL researchers and their colleagues are developing a new technique for creating powerful magnetic fields inside NIF hohlraums. Simulations and experiments have shown that magnetized hohlraums could significantly enhance NIF’s implosion performance.
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Hong Sio: On the Road for Fusion
MIT graduate student Hong Sio has gotten used to being somewhere else. His research as part of the High-Energy-Density Physics team at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center has rotated him from Massachusetts to California for projects on NIF and to New York for work on the OMEGA laser. Learn more »
Sparking an Early Interest in STEM
Six LLNL employees who work in the NIF & Photon Science Directorate participated in the 2017 edition of the Tri-Valley Expanding Your Horizons Conference, which is geared to increase interest in careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Learn more »
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