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Fusion quest reaches another milestone
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After 12 years and billions of dollars spent, the U.S. Department of Energy on Tuesday officially certified the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.
Key missions of the facility, the world’s largest laser operation, are to assess the reliability of the nation’s nuclear stockpile through simulations and to provide a training ground for a new generation of physicists.
But in 2010, all eyes will be on the facility to deliver on its most visible promise
With a sustained fusing of hydrogen, fusion energy power plants could be built, said Edward Moses, director of the NIF project, providing an energy source that would use water, including seawater, as fuel, and emit no carbon.
“If you have a wet pile of leaves and light it with a match, you get a little puff but it can’t propagate,” said Moses, alluding to previous efforts at fusion research. “But now we hope we can create conditions where the leaves are hot and dry.
“This has always been a grand scientific endeavor,” he added. “People have been thinking about this for 50 years.”
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