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Published online 28 January 2009 | Nature 457, 517 (2009) | doi:10.1038/457517a
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Laser facility flickers into life
US nuclear-fusion project prepares to mimic the Sun.
The US National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Livermore, California, is almost ready to fire up its 192 laser beams to recreate the Sun's fusion burn.
The last of the project's 6,206 optics units — the mostly glass and crystal components that focus the lasers onto a tiny target — was installed on 26 January.
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