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Or some say the opposite: that the practical development of fusion energy at the NIF and Sandia played a secondary role to weapons research. So they made engine
by tlb 11y ago
Or some say the opposite: that the practical development of fusion energy at the NIF and Sandia played a secondary role to weapons research. So they made engineering decisions to probe the limits of fusion physics, rather than making something that works.
- guimarin 11y agoI think it's a stretch to ever think there was practical development for energy occurring at those facilities. When you think for 10s about the efficacy of dropping a deuterium pellet every 100ms into a laser chamber that literally needs the lasers to fire 3X orders of magnitude faster than currently possible to sustain a fusion reaction you come to the realization that this was always and only about weapons research.