http://dailyme.com/story/2010092000004225/livermore-lab-nears-launch-fusion-quest.html
Any comments on the article that appeared in the paper today?
Any comments on the article that appeared in the paper today?
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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We (USA) have come this far and we need to work on the pending problems; else it will go the way of the magnetic fusion project…a great experiment that never happened.
A D-T ignition target is approximately 10 Ci of tritium (unless that has changed) in HT, or about the same as in an exit sign.
LLNL use to release 100's and thousands of Ci's of tritium in HT in the past (1980's and prior).
Running a shot campaign of 4 or 5 ignition size targets (to see how well NIF works), which is done in vacuum containment, in an evacuated facility, with an elevated release point of some 30-35m shot at 3 o'clock in the morning does not seem like a huge danger to me.
Intentional slow boating?
What a joke, here's a guy defining "credible" when he has none. His statement "we have no reason to believe it's not going to work" is a weak, political, and waffle statement considering we paid several billion on this contraption. It typical of experiments to have grandiose oversold declarations to acquire money to build them and then have weak statements to undersell the product when we get ready to fire it. Come on D'Ago have some confidence in something we paid several billion on and stop defining credible for us.
NNSA does it all the time.
Misson accomplished.