>>511063271>I have read that the nuclear energy and astrophysics aspects of NIF is just done to get eggheads interested in working on and with NIF.ive known several ppl, and thats basically the trajectory. if youre going out to los alamos or cali rn, and actually getting clearance and working on the interesting stuff going on there, its DoE funded weapons R&D, and thats pretty much it. no if ands or buts.
and if you dont wanna do that, or feel conflicted about that from a moral PoV and the thought of using such technology for destruction, then stfu and never to talk to us ever again.
go try and beg your governor for funding for your smaller fusion lab, im sure itll work this time (it wont, theyre broke)
apparently U of R got some fed moneys recently, from what im reading, so they must be trying to appeal to that as well in some fashion.
on the bright side, at least research is being done on this stuff at all. so many ppl too willing to handwave away something so potentially game-changing, all because its "too expensive". so is fucking everything else