Project Description
Parsons is a partner with the University of California and the U.S. Department of Energy in the design and construction of the National Ignition Facility (NIF). The state-of-the-art program houses the world's most powerful laser, expanding the envelope of fusion and physics research. NIF will advance inertial fusion energy research supporting U.S. strategic energy goals.
NIF's objective is to ignite and burn a small tritium and deuterium fusion target. The resultant conditions are like those in stars and nuclear weapons. One hundred ninety-two laser beams, totaling 500-trillion watts of power, firing for only billionths of a second can cause a small BB-sized target to reach 100 million degrees centigrade and 100 billion times atmospheric pressure.
NIF is a key component of the Department of Energy Stockpile Stewardship Program whose mission is to maintain the safety, reliability, and effectiveness of our nation's nuclear stockpile without underground nuclear testing. NIF experiments will investigate the physics regimes in weapons effects, radiation transport, secondary implosion, ignition, and output.
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