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*Student Notes*

*Science on Saturday*

***Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory***

***February 23, 2008***

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| **From the Sun to the Sun:\                                           |
| The story of the NIF and our\                                         |
| energy future!**                                                      |
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| Edward Moses                      | Dan Burns                        |
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| NIF& Photon Science\              | AP Physics Teacher               |
| Prinicpal Associate Director      |                                  |
|                                   | Los Gatos High School            |
| Lawrence Livermore                |                                  |
|                                   | Los Gatos-Saratoga Union\        |
| National Laboratory               | High School District             |
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**Goals:** Students will learn about the unique role California has
played since the 1849 Gold Rush in key science and technology
accomplishments such as discovering new elements, splitting the atom,
and manufacturing advanced microprocessors. NIF's goal of achieving
fusion ignition, opening up the possibility of limitless clean energy,
keeps California as a world leader in science and places the Tri-Valley
on the map as the Photon Valley.

**Presentation Outline:**

Six elements have played a significant role in how Bay Area science has
affected the world. Explain the main reason each element is significant
in the space below.

Gold

Uranium and Plutonium

> Silicon

Hydrogen[\
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Carbon

**Questions**

Which element will play the greatest role in the world's future and why?

How many grams of water would yield the same energy of supertanker full
of oil?

How many years ago was the first laser built?

What 3 Bay area college football teams would have enough room to play on
the roof of the\
National Ignition Facility?

In the future, the Tri-Valley may be better known as Valley.

For more information on the National Ignition Facility visit our
website: lasers.llnl.gov

**Science Content Standards**

Physics 4e: Students know radio waves, light, and X-rays are different
wavelength bands in the spectrum of electromagnetic waves whose speed in
a vacuum is approximately 3×108 m/s (186,000 miles/second).\
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Physics 5d: Students know the properties of transistors and the role of
transistors in electric circuits.\
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Physics 5i: Students know plasmas, the fourth state of matter, contain
ions or free electrons or both and conduct electricity.\
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Chemistry 1a: Students know how to relate the position of an element in
the periodic table to its atomic number and atomic mass.\
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Chemistry 11b: Students know the energy release per gram of material is
much larger in nuclear fusion or fission reactions than in chemical
reactions. The change in mass (calculated by E = mc2 ) is small but
significant in nuclear reactions.\
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Chemistry 11c: \# Students know some naturally occurring isotopes of
elements are radioactive, as are isotopes formed in nuclear reactions..

Speaker Bios

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| ![](media/image1. | Ed Moses earned his B.S. from Cornell University |
| jpeg){width="1.82 | in 1972 in electrical engineering and his Ph.D.  |
| 29166666666667in" | from Cornell University in 1977 in laser         |
| height="1.822     | physics. He began his professional career at     |
| 9166666666667in"} | Hughes Aircraft Company where he was a scientist |
|                   | and program manager from 1977 to 1980 developing |
| **Dr. Ed Moses**  | high average power visible light lasers. In      |
|                   | 1980, he joined the Lawrence Livermore National  |
|                   | Laboratory working on new ways to use lasers to  |
|                   | process materials. In 1987, he became the        |
|                   | Program Manager for the Isotope Separation and   |
|                   | Materials Processing Program while also serving  |
|                   | as Deputy Associate Director for Lasers. In      |
|                   | 1990, Dr. Moses left the Laboratory, when he     |
|                   | became the Executive Vice President of Advanced  |
|                   | Technology Applications, but returned to the     |
|                   | Laboratory in 1996 as Deputy Associate Director  |
|                   | for Program Development in the Physics and Space |
|                   | Technology Directorate. There he became the      |
|                   | Project Manager for PEREGRINE, a program that    |
|                   | developed and licensed a new method to treat     |
|                   | cancer using radiation therapy. In 1998, Dr.     |
|                   | Moses joined the National Ignition Facility      |
|                   | (NIF) Project at the Lawrence Livermore National |
|                   | Laboratory and became the Project Manager for    |
|                   | NIF in 1999. The NIF is a \$3.5B, project to     |
|                   | build and commission the world\'s largest laser  |
|                   | facility for the purpose of studying high energy |
|                   | density physics and attaining thermonuclear burn |
|                   | in the laboratory. He is currently the Principal |
|                   | Associate Director for the NIF & Photon Science  |
|                   | Directorate and the Director of the National     |
|                   | Ignition Campaign, and plays a key role in the   |
|                   | development of the applications for the use of   |
|                   | the NIF in pursuit of national strategic         |
|                   | security, national energy security and basic     |
|                   | science. Ed holds patents in laser technology    |
|                   | and computational physics. He wants everyone to  |
|                   | learn about this exciting and growing field.     |
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| ![](media/image2. | Dan Burns has been teaching Earth and Space      |
| jpeg){width="1.83 | Science and AP Physics at Los Gatos High School  |
| 19444444444444in" | for 12 years. He is the LGHS science department  |
| height="1.689     | chair and past president of the Northern         |
| 5833333333334in"} | California/Nevada American Association of        |
|                   | Physics Teachers. He has worked on curriculum    |
| **Dan Burns**     | development and teacher workshops for the SETI   |
|                   | Institute, the USGS, NASA, AAPT, and San Jose    |
|                   | State University. He has a BS in Aerospace       |
|                   | Engineering from the University of Illinois.     |
|                   | Prior to becoming a teacher Dan was a senior     |
|                   | research specialist for the Lockheed Missiles    |
|                   | and Space Company. Dan is an avid amateur        |
|                   | astronomer and astrophotographer and has had     |
|                   | several pictures published in astronomy          |
|                   | magazines.                                       |
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