The National Ignition Facility was conceived in response to a nuclear-weapon test ban signed by George H.

FORBES: A Nuclear Hybrid

The project has been drawn up to capitalise on another project at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

BBC: Laser heats up the fusion future

The U.K. company AWE and the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory have joined-forces with the National Ignition Facility in the U.S. to help provide energy using Inertial Confinement Fusion, in which a pellet of fuel is heated using powerful lasers.

FORBES: U.K. And U.S. Join Forces on Laser-Fusion Energy