Science. 2000 Aug 18;289(5482):1126-9. doi: 10.1126/science.289.5482.1126.
The National Ignition Facility (NIF), a superlaser being built here at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in an effort to use lasers rather than nuclear explosions to create a fusion reaction, is supposed to allow weapons makers to preserve the nuclear arsenal--and do nifty fusion science, too. But a new report that examines its troubled past also casts doubt on its future. Even some of NIF's scientific and political allies are beginning to talk openly of a scaled-down version of the original 192-laser design.
国家点火装置（NIF）是一座超级激光设施，位于劳伦斯利弗莫尔国家实验室，旨在利用激光而不是核爆炸来引发核聚变反应，它有望使武器制造商能够维持核武库——同时也能进行出色的核聚变科学研究。但一份审查其坎坷历史的新报告也对其未来提出了质疑。甚至 NIF 的一些科学和政治盟友也开始公开谈论对最初的 192 束激光设计进行缩减的方案。
