Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - Livermore, California

The Associated Press has a story going from yesterday regarding efforts by scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to build the world's most powerful laser. They hope to recreate in their football stadum-sized lab the "energy found at the center of the sun."

Engineers have assembled the framework for a network of 192 laser beams, each traveling 1,000 feet to converge simultaneously on a target the size of a pencil eraser. The trip will take one-thousandth of a second during which the light's energy is amplified many billions of times to create a brief laser pulse 1,000 times the electric generating power of the United States.

LLNL is a national security laboratory that employs over 8,000 people on its one-square-mile site in Livermore, California.

Physical Address:
7000 East Avenue

Livermore, CA 94550

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