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In December, when Bernard Madoff's hedge fund turned out to be a gigantic Ponzi scheme that was US??$50 billion in the red, everybody wondered how this had gone undetected for more than a decade. Amazingly, in separate audits, government auditors saw no evidence of wrongdoing.
Later this month in California, construction will be completed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility, or NIF, the world's most powerful laser system 12 years and roughly US $3.5 billion after it was begun. The plan is for NIF??s 192 neodymium lasers to create controlled moments of fusion by focusing their energy on 3-millimeter-wide pellets of deuterium and tritium.
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