Lawrence Livermore Team Wins Project of the Year

  ProjectsAtWork  

A team at Livermore National Laboratory created the world’s largest laser in an effort to achieve self-sustaining nuclear fusion — the largest scientific construction project by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration. It was completed under budget and ahead of schedule.

National Ignition Facility (NIF), a project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), has been honored by Project Management Institute (PMI) as the winner of its prestigious PMI Project of the Year Award. The award recognizes the accomplishments of a project team for “superior performance, exemplary project management execution, innovation in the use of project management technology or other processes.”

The NIF, which was constructed at and led by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, is the world’s largest and highest-energy laser. Accomplished by a worldwide collaboration that included representatives from governments, academia and industrial partners, it is also the largest scientific construction project completed by the DOE’s NNSA. The facility has the goal of achieving self-sustaining nuclear fusion — the process that powers the sun and the stars — in the laboratory for the first time. Fusion power has many of the benefits of…

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