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Re:The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change by Phlarp on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @11:48AM (#9765433)
NIF is always strangely silent, because they don't exist to drive progress towards fusion based electrical power generation, they exist to validate and test miniaturized nuclear weapon designs.
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Re:The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change by oldpond on Thursday June 25, 2015 @11:50AM (#9778761)
I don't know about that, but I was watching their ignition tests succeed one after another, and then they stopped. If they did succeed they would want to run it for awhile before announcing it. <tinfoil hat off>
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