People shit talk NIF because it's a very expensive machine to calibrate the Fortran code used to test hydrogen bombs without detonating them, in no way meant to

People shit talk NIF because it's a very expensive machine to calibrate the Fortran code used to test hydrogen bombs without detonating them, in no way meant to advance fusion for power generation, that gets accolades for doing something that will probably not be useful for a useful advance in fusion.