High-Laser-Energy Shot Puts NIF Back on Track Toward Ignition
https://lasers.llnl.gov/news/high-energy-shot-puts-nif-back-on-track-toward-ignition
https://lasers.llnl.gov/news/high-energy-shot-puts-nif-back-on-track-toward-ignition
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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NIF über alles!
Remarkable. Fantastic.
From an idea, an unclear concept 15 years ago to a 100-square acre, flawlessly operating instrument assimilating amazing new technologies from material, to modelling to controls...
1.8MJ of blue light.. 500TW every 4 hours on a 3 mm target... Wow.
Brilliant.
24 beamlines 192 beams, adaptive optics, 5 MJ of capacitors, amazing 9000 pcs of 40cm x40cm Nd glass, meter-long 9000 flashlamps, literally millions of optics... Cleanest large surfaces ever produced, 1000s of times better than in wafer production.
A reliable 4K target system in a shielded 10m diameter vacuum sphere. DT targets regularly meeting exacting standards. Calibrated diagnostics systems to determine performance. Models to support interpretation.
All to the highest seismic standards, every system with a safety note, checked and rechecked.
Truly a magnificent lifetime achievemnt. Something Haussman dreamed of when he hired Emmett. What Paisner, Simmons, Hurley and Frietag strove for in setting high scientific and engineering standards. What Trenholme's team predicted.
Over 1000 labbies contributed years of their lives and many, many late nights.
Remarkable. Unprecedented. The damn thing works...it regularly meets its design specs.
Thanks for the confirmation Al.
"FIAT LUX" is fulfilled.
Now on to discoveries...
There is no such thing as a "square acre." Your credibility was ruined early on in your post. The rest you got out of an old LLNL media piece. You understand nothing of what you posted. But hey, uneducated enthusiasm is ok.
There is no such thing as a "square acre." Your credibility was ruined early on in your post. The rest you got out of an old LLNL media piece. You understand nothing of what you posted. But hey, uneducated enthusiasm is ok.
11/19/2022 6:24 PM
Let the ship sail, discoveries await. One does not need to understand one only needs to believe.
Oh, and you can square an acre, but I'm not sure what it means.
11/19/2022 7:49 PM
OK, so it's a religion for you. Got it.
Nothing will ever beat the Sandia Z, so you better learn to cope.
12/05/2022 7:09 PM
Take a guess which machine wins the 2023 Noble prize, stay tuned.