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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The NNSA really needs to get rid of this garbage. In tens years we will have spent $5 billion to get stuck at base camp. Get your shovel ready. No bathrooms at base camp.
I though base camp got wiped out by an avalanche.
May 14, 2015 at 7:34 PM
is that you Ed Moses. Give up the sinking ship bro! Actually, I knew you already did.
http://phys.org/wire-news/193129944/scientist-omar-hurricane-discusses-llnl-fusion-program.html
Only picked up by phys.org. Sorry Omar, your 15 minutes have expired. No one cares.
“The NIC implosion was the most difficult implosion you could do.”
Well yes it was ! But then again given the strict time crunch for the ignition campaign, you could say once again "GO BIG or GO HOME"
Didn't we see that at Regal Cinema ?
Ed used the "basecamp" to Everest idea many times in his program wide pep talks.
No Program Leader is worth a c...p if they don't push hard and GO BIG. Thanks Ed for giving it a go and giving us with 30+ years in ICF a fighting chance !
May 31, 2015 at 5:50 PM
Yeah, thanks Ed for leading us down the path of no where only to bail out. For ensuring no one takes your seat at the table. And lastly, for those hateful stare downs when you didn't get your way.