NIF: “Scientists hit a milestone toward nuclear-fusion energy”
Jan 26, 2022
https://youtu.be/aPmOsCR96o0
Jan 26, 2022
https://youtu.be/aPmOsCR96o0
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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Reproduce the shot.
A blatant push to absorb Sandia's fusion funding to support more ridiculous nonsense at NIF.
It isn't haw many Joules NIF is getting, it is how many Joules NIF is spending to get that many Joules.
The Z could be seen as relevant for ITER, more so than NIF would be. I have no idea if that is actually true but I have a few people say this.
2/05/2022 4:48 PM"
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Did I miss something. In any case yes, the peanut gallery can know best in many cases, particularly if that peanut gallery does have some experts and people that understand how science actually works. Journals are for very specific technical merit not overall themes or if a research direction has a long term future or not. You present a very odd argument on how science advances. In any case this is a blog or peanut gallery for things related to the labs. Would you call conferences or DOE meetings peanut galleries, because the same things are said in those as on this blog. Also who said that the posters are not professionals? Many may have completely adequate technical backgrounds to make insightful comments. For example if you ask someone at NIF if things are going great they would say yes, in fact it is in their interest to say yes and hype up their results. On the other hand anyone who has good understanding of science can point out that one successful shot may not mean all that much if they cannot reproduce it on a regular basis. Anyone with real knowledge of science knows that these kinds of things have happened countless times especially in large scale experimental physics.
The 'artificial sun' nuclear reactor in Culham released a total of 59 megajoules of energy, equating to a power output of just over 11 megawatts averaged over five seconds.
It is not a huge energy output