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How to Make Your Own Supernova

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Part of Series QUEST
Length 05:06
Licensor KQED
Producer(s) Amy Standen
Formats Debut (not aired nationally), Documentary, News reporting
Topics News, Science, Technology
Produced Unspecified
Added to PRX January 18, 2008
 

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Summary:

Will the world's largest laser be strong enough to create nuclear fusion in a can?

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http://www.kqed.org/quest/radio/view/726

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none necessary.

Be sure to link to the Flickr set (link below) from your web site, and plug it in the back announce: "Find photos of the $4 billion dollar National Ignition Facility on our web site..."

Flickr set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kqedquest/sets/72157603687811897/

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Informational, NPR NewsMagazine-y, Sound Rich

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English

Description:

It's one of the most expensive high-tech project the United States has ever attempted, and some say it will never work. QUEST visits the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, where scientists will soon aim the world's largest laser at a target the size of a pencil eraser. The goal? Nuclear fusion -- and, they say, the answer to the world's clean energy needs.

Sorry, but this one justifies the hyperbole: A hugely expensive, controversial, and massively high-tech national science experiment that's received little recent press coverage.

BONUS: A terrific Flickr site, if we may say so ourselves.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kqedquest/sets/72157603687811897/

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