Toward Limitless Energy: National Ignition Facility Focus Of Symposium

Chemists are preparing to play an important but often unheralded role in determining the success of one of the largest and most important scientific experiments in history — next year’s initial attempts at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) to produce the world’s first controlled nuclear fusion reaction. If successful in taming the energy source of the sun, stars, and of the hydrogen bomb, scientists could develop a limitless new source of producing electricity for homes, factories, and businesses.