MIT students are part of the large team that achieved fusion ignition for the first time in a laboratory.
https://scitechdaily.com/mit-contributes-to-success-of-historic-fusion-ignition-experiment/amp/
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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Hell yes. NIF is how fusion is done, how fusion works and how fusion will work.
9/19/2022 5:21 PM
Excuse me but unless you are an MIT student you do not have much to add. These are the smartest students on the planet and they just got the first fusion shot. That should be celebrated not derided.
9/21/2022 7:56 PM
It is an objective fact that MIT students are the best or amongst the very best in the world. Of course the argument still
holds for students from Harvard, Caltech and Princeton. I just find it sort of funny that your have people with only a bs from Cal Poly and and MS in from UC Davis saying how NIF totally does not work and so on when they actually know very little about it just from reading some of the inane comments made about NIF on this blog. You can say what you want but NIF has achieved many of its goals and will likely complete many more if not all the attended goals. NIF is considered a success by scientific community. In your mind NIF will always be a failure no matter what is done because you simply do not like this line of work or you have some personal with NIF. One thing is clear is that you really do not know what NIF was designed to do, what the goals where and the implications for a variety of applied or basic science. I think the blog is nice way to discuss NIF including the current status to reproduce the Aug shot
and new directions but you just throw out "NIF is bad" without any real argumentation to back it up.
9/23/2022 3:21 PM
Quality is better than quantity.
9/22/2022 8:00 AM"
I am sensing some bitterness on your part.