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Nature 399, 622 (17 June 1999) | doi:10.1038/21257

UK to help fund US laser fusion research

Rex Dalton

Britain's Ministry of Defence has announced a significant scientific and financial commitment to the US National Ignition Facility (NIF), the world's largest laser, being built at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. An initial investment of "tens of millions of US dollars" will fund research by British scientists to allow more rapid repeat firings of the 192 lasers in the NIF's target chamber.