https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/05/12/lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory-achieved-a-stunning-breakthrough-on-fusion-energy/
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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People are going to focus in on the fact that it has taken so much effort to reach this point but that it doesn't relate to creating a sustained capability that could be used in a commercial setting. I would point out that NIF's true goal was to learn more of the physics of fusion as it applies to nuclear weapons. That's not politically correct, but it is necessary.
And for those that argue we aren't learning anything as it applies to weapons research, how about letting us get back to testing in Nevada again?
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