Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | laboratory, Livermore, California, United States | Britannica (original) (raw)
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lasers
In laser: High-energy lasers …the 1960s physicists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California calculated that intense laser pulses could produce those conditions by heating and compressing tiny pellets containing mixtures of hydrogen isotopes. They suggested using these “microimplosions” both to generate energy for civilian use and to simulate the implosion of a… Read More
Livermore
In Livermore …Livermore Laboratory in 1971 and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 1979) by the University of California spurred the city’s growth as a technological centre (atomic ordnance, nuclear research, medicine, and computer-related manufacturing). Livermore’s population grew rapidly in the 1990s, when residents of the San Francisco Bay area moved farther from… Read More
livermorium
In livermorium … in Dubna, Russia, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, announced the production of atoms of livermorium when curium-248 was fused with calcium-48. The resulting atoms of livermorium had an atomic weight of 292 and decayed through the emission of an alpha particle (helium Read More
Los Alamos National Laboratory
In Los Alamos National Laboratory …in the 1950s with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. Disarmament and arms-reduction treaties in the 1970s and ’90s, the breakup of the Soviet Union, and the end of the Cold War in 1991 resulted in diminished demand for nuclear weapons production. Although LANL remained the chief U.S.… Read More
nuclear fusion reactors
In fusion reactor: Inertial confinement For example, at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, a product of density and energy-confinement time of 5 × 1014 seconds per cubic centimetre has been achieved employing the world’s largest and most powerful laser, the Nova laser. (The Nova is a 10-beam neodymium-glass laser operated at an… Read More
Teller
In Edward Teller …second nuclear weapons laboratory, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, in Livermore, Calif., in 1952. For almost the next four decades it was the United States’ chief factory for making thermonuclear weapons. Teller was associate director of Livermore from 1954 to 1958 and from 1960 to 1975, and he was its… Read More
