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Advances toward laser fusion as an abundant new source of clean energy announced recently by the National Ignition Facility are also paving a path toward new scientific discovery, say SPIE leaders.
In an SPIE Newsroom interview in January 2012, Lawrence Livermore National Lab program director for Laser Fusion Energy Mike Dunne predicted that ignition and burn at NIF would be successfully achieved by the end of 2012 or shortly thereafter.
“We look forward to LLNL meeting its long-sought goal later this year. That will open a new path to energy availability in the post fossil-fuel future. The people working on this dream for so long have greatly benefited the optical community while building the engineering marvel that is the NIF. We would not have many of the advanced lasers of today, important advanced manufacturing tools, without the work done at LLNL to solve materials and fabrication challenges for high-power lasers,” SPIE CEO Eugene Arthurs.
Once they get ignition, there should be a race to build working fusion plants to fuel all those new electric cars. The NIF will effectively be ahead of the ITER effort by .... a few decades ?
New project aims for fusion ignition - MIT News Office
In an SPIE Newsroom interview in January 2012, Lawrence Livermore National Lab program director for Laser Fusion Energy Mike Dunne predicted that ignition and burn at NIF would be successfully achieved by the end of 2012 or shortly thereafter.
“We look forward to LLNL meeting its long-sought goal later this year. That will open a new path to energy availability in the post fossil-fuel future. The people working on this dream for so long have greatly benefited the optical community while building the engineering marvel that is the NIF. We would not have many of the advanced lasers of today, important advanced manufacturing tools, without the work done at LLNL to solve materials and fabrication challenges for high-power lasers,” SPIE CEO Eugene Arthurs.
Once they get ignition, there should be a race to build working fusion plants to fuel all those new electric cars. The NIF will effectively be ahead of the ITER effort by .... a few decades ?
New project aims for fusion ignition - MIT News Office
