Funny tidbit, there is a huge scramble and fight over these few shot days from different research groups across the US that can actually be used for non-nuke an

Funny tidbit, there is a huge scramble and fight over these few shot days from different research groups across the US that can actually be used for non-nuke and non-fusion physics, they're called "Discovery Science" shots and there are only like a dozen or so each year. For example, last year 18 shot days were devoted to DS.[0] [0] https://lasers.llnl.gov/news/next-10-discovery-science-experiments-chosen https://lasers.llnl.gov/news/next-10-discovery-science-exper...