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It’s a high-flux isotropic neutron source intended for things that have nothing at all to do with power generation, but, possibly great improvements over spalla
by jl2718 3y ago
It’s a high-flux isotropic neutron source intended for things that have nothing at all to do with power generation, but, possibly great improvements over spallation sources for certain applications.
Or, from the more bureaucratic viewpoint, it’s a successful sale of ‘science’ to the congress for your money. You paid about 0.1% of your gross income for it (ROM).
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> a high-flux isotropic neutron source intended for things that have nothing at all to do with power generation We're still characterising how non-stellar fusion plasmas behave. It's valuable to be able to create that on demand. Also, this research is critical to modelling nuclear weapons without live tests.
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- noobermin 3y agoFar ahead of you, a lot of the non-stewardship and non-ignition work of NIF is for creating neutrons, although you don't even need ignition levels of energy to make neutrons with lasers. Although the research is premature and the beams aren't as good as spallation sources, tabletop (as in a laser table a few metres across) ultra-intense laser systems have been generating neutron beams in a single room for almost a decade+ now, we just need to improve the beams and get the word out there.
- deepnotderp 3y agoMuch in the same way that the “Wright brothers flight has nothing to do with transportation”