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Re:Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab by latchkey on Monday December 12, 2022 @04:55PM (#33960983)
I'm just glad these scientists are working on something other than nuclear bombs.
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Re:Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab by zargon on Monday December 12, 2022 @05:19PM (#33961240)
The entire point of LLNL is to study nuclear bombs.
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Re:Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab by PaulHoule on Monday December 12, 2022 @05:22PM (#33961277)
The original point of LLNL was to develop nuclear bombs. There is such as thing as "mission creep", also the challenge of maintaining the ability to develop bombs in the future if we need to.
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Re:Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab by zargon on Monday December 12, 2022 @05:28PM (#33961346)
Studying nuclear bombs is still the point. The press releases about fusion "energy" are just for appearances sake. The methods they employ are useless for energy applications. They're just H-bomb simulations.
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