Gerard Mourou, Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 laureate is pictured inside the the "Extreme Light Infrastructure-Nuclear Physics"- ELI-NP laser in Magurele city nearby Bucharest March 26, 2024. ELI-NP is meant to investigate the laser-matter interaction with nuclear methods and tools and to pursue Nuclear Physics with High Power Lasers and is the largest investment ever made in scientific research in Romania. ELI-NP can operate two THALES laser arms of 10 Peta Watts (10 PW) each. (Photo by Daniel MIHAILESCU / AFP) / To go with AFP story by Anne BEADE (Photo by DANIEL MIHAILESCU/AFP via Getty Images)