A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol 378, Issue 6624.Download PDF SLAVUTYCH, UKRAINE—In one of the last acts of camaraderie in a fractured nation, Soviet workers from the Baltics to the Caucasus converged on a pine forest in the late 1980s to build a Ukrainian city from scratch. Slavutych was a new home …
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(a) Sketch of the magnetized NIF hohlraum constructed from AuTa4 with solenoid coil to carry current. (b) X-ray entrainment measured through one of the LEHs and incident laser powers for magnetized and unmagnetized AuTa4 hohlraum and two unmagnetized Au hohlraums. “BF” refers to “BigFoot”, the name of the previous ignition design. Credit: Physical examination letters …
