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this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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The National Ignition Facility has an explainer here. Typically, these facilities operate at petawatt peak powers by using lots and lots of pulse amplifiers. From what I heard, after every shot, the staff have to comb through the facility making sure things are still working, replacing blown out components, etc...
Oh wow a few Joules, that's orders of magnitude bigger than ours