Not including the NIF in Livermore, CA, what other ignition facility or scalable module to ignition proposals is DOE reviewing (if any), and what are their construction costs?
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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http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.255003
http://www.firefusionpower.org/ICF_HED_Review_Report_2015_Update.pdf
If you are interested and spending an afternoon reading stuff.
"If you are interested and spending an afternoon reading stuff."
Ya right, I hate LANL and only read things that give me information to have it closed. Once it is closed than I am vindicated and will no longer suck. This logic is a little weak but tell what what are my choices...face reality, no can do on that, no can do indeed.