Laboratory for Laser Energetics

Federal Budget Would Close UR Laser Lab

President Trump’s 2019 Federal Budget proposal calls for shutting down the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics over the next three years. The Department of Energy budget proposal would gradually ramp down the federal contribution to the high-energy laser facility by 2021. The laboratory was formed in 1970 and is used in research projects […]

February 20, 2018

By Bud

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Sen. Schumer Urges Feds to Boost University of Rochester Laser Lab Support

United States Senator Chuck Schumer and U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz paid a visit to the University of Rochester’s Laser Energetics Lab Thursday afternoon, with the New York Democrat pushing to keep growing the laser lab and its push for fusion ignition. Schumer and other New York lawmakers have pushed annual federal funding of the laser […]

October 28, 2016

By Bud

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