Office of Inertial Confinement Fusion, Facilities
ICF operates a set of world-class experimental facilities to create HEDP conditions and to obtain quantitative data in support of its numerous stockpile stewardship-related activities. To learn about three high energy experimental facilities and two small lasers that provide ICF capabilities, select the links below.
National Ignition Facility, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [1]
OMEGA and OMEGA EP, University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics [2]
Z Machine, Sandia National Laboratories [3]
Two smaller lasers provide additional ICF capabilities.
Nike, Naval Research Laboratory [4]
Trident, Los Alamos National Laboratory [5]
