National Ignition Facility and Stockpile Stewardship.

Provides description and analysis of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) project, to build a facility that would utilize lasers to achieve extreme conditions of temperature and pressure. Discusses projected role of NIF in DOE stockpile stewardship and management program, to maintain stockpile of nu...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service, ProQuest (Firm)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1997.
Series:	U.S. Congressional Research.
Subjects:	Nuclear physics > Research. Nuclear weapons. Science. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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Summary:	Provides description and analysis of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) project, to build a facility that would utilize lasers to achieve extreme conditions of temperature and pressure. Discusses projected role of NIF in DOE stockpile stewardship and management program, to maintain stockpile of nuclear weapons in absence of nuclear testing. Discusses related issues and policy options for future of NIF.
Item Description:	Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed July 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC. CRS Report. Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource.