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Re:Laser fusion facility heads back to drawing board by bananapub on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:33PM (#32227923)
> LIFE, short for Laser Inertial Fusion Energy, was a fusion energy effort run at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory between 2008 and 2013.

ie an American nuclear weapons laboratory was doing it

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Re:Laser fusion facility heads back to drawing board by pfdietz on Monday July 25, 2022 @01:54PM (#32228288)
The game played with inertial fusion is that when the energy people are skeptical, say it's about weapons, and when the weapons people are skeptical, say it's about energy.
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