Experimental Highlights - 2014

December

• NIF’s TARDIS Aims to Conquer Time and Space

November

• DIXI Reveals New Hot-Spot Details
• Controlling Hydrodynamic Mixing in NIF Implosions
• MIT’s Mighty-Mite Detectors Prove Their Mettle

October

• Operational Improvements Boost NIF’s Productivity

September

• Going from RAGS to Riches

August

• NIF Tests Two New Target Designs
• First ARC Stretched Pulses Fired Into Compressor Vessel

July

• International Team Conducts First Collisionless Shock Experiment on NIF
• Nature Cover Story Reports on NIF Experiments Peering Into Giant Planets
• NIF Fires 19 Target Shots in July

June

• NIF X-ray Spectrometers Commissioned
• NIF Fires 28 Target Shots in June