Legal Opinion
Natural Resources Defense Council v. Abraham
District Court, District of Columbia
Decided September 30, 2002No. CIV.A.00-2431 EGSPublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
SULLIVAN, District Judge.
The Department of Energy (“DOE”) is currently overseeing the construction of a multi-billion dollar facility in Livermore, California named the National Ignition Facility (“NIF”). The NIF, as designed, would be used to initiate and sustain the nuclear fusion process in laboratory conditions. In theory, a fusion reaction would be produced by converging 192 lasers on a tiny fuel pellet, crushing and heating the pellet until its atoms emit nuclear energy, a process called “ignition.” See Pl.Ex. 1, at 7 (GAO Report).
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