When will NIF get significantly defunded in favor of accident prevention designed (rigorously engineering controlled) new fission power plants? How long can CA, the USA, and World wait given the geopolitics and concerns of global warming?
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 Fairy Tale of Nuclear Fusion" by Reinders (Springer),
"A Piece of the Sun" by Clery (Ducksworth Overlook),
"Fusion Follies: Carbon-Free Energy and Seawater Sorcery" by Miklosy (Amazon)
The first two books explain why fusion power is not in time to affect climate change even by new fusion start-up companies. The third book looks at the history of LLNL's NIF and how fusion physics must resort to psuedo-science to make fusion power appear credible, and justify DOE/NNSA funding year after year.