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At the National Ignition Facility, a specialized team assesses the risk of damage from target debris and shrapnel dispersal during high-energy laser shots.

An angular hohlraum named “Frustraum” could become a key to the next stages of ICF research at the National Ignition Facility.

A research team has demonstrated that lead — a metal so soft that it is difficult to machine at ambient conditions — responds similarly to other much stronger metals when rapidly compressed at high pressure.

Researchers have discovered that at thermodynamic conditions mimicking that of Earth’s core, argon can react with nickel, forming a stable argon-nickel (ArNi) compound.

LLNL researchers described the results of effort to develop a modeling capability “reliable enough to guide NIF experiments to ignition” in a featured Physics of Plasmas.

On Sept. 19, 1957, the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Livermore detonated the first contained underground nuclear explosion, “Rainier,” into a long tunnel beneath a high mesa in the northwest corner of the Nevada Test Site.

Six Lawrence Livermore scientists have been selected as 2019 fellows of the American Physical Society (APS).

Over the last decade, the world's most energetic laser has been making important contributions to the Stockpile Stewardship Program, national security, and high-energy-density science.

Nuclear physicist Maria Gatu Johnson was named winner of the American Physical Society's Katherine E. Weimer Award.

Two scientists from Lawrence Livermore are recipients of the Department of Energy’s Office of Science Early Career Research Program award.