It's late April and workers are assembling the last parts of the National Ignition Facility (NIF), a sprawling building covering the area of three football fields at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, CA. Dressed in hard hats, hair nets, lab coats, and latex gloves, they have gathered at the target chamber, a sphere 10 meters in diameter and bristling with 48 burnished-aluminum ducts that together house 192 separate laser beams. Each beam on its own is one of the world's most powerful, says Bruno Van Wonterghem, operations manager at NIF. Together they deliver 50 to 60 times the energy of any other laser.
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机译:4月下旬,工人正在组装国家点火装置(NIF)的最后部分,这是一座庞大的建筑,位于加利福尼亚州利佛摩的劳伦斯·利弗莫尔国家实验室的三个足球场区域。他们身着安全帽,发网,实验服和乳胶手套,聚集在目标室,直径为10米,球形,并用48条抛光铝管吹拂,它们共同容纳192条独立的激光束。 NIF运营经理Bruno Van Wonterghem说,每个光束都是世界上最强大的光束之一。它们共同提供的能量是任何其他激光器的50至60倍。
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