• Dr. Dabbles@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You need to maintain them. You could go look at NIF’s own description. They aren’t secretive about the purpose of this work.

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      1 year ago

      Thanks! I feel this really hit the point home for me - “NIF also helps address “life-extension” programs—regularly planned refurbishments of weapon systems to ensure long-term reliability.”

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        1 year ago

        Yep, exactly. People that think this news is part of some energy production effort are sorely mistaken. It’s also not the first time an energy positive reaction has happened, since those started happening in the 1970s with tokamaks.