• Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de
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    10 months ago

    It’s the NIF. It’s a hydrogen bomb simulator, it’s not intended to become a power production mechanism. Roughly 0% of their budget involves researching how to turn single fusion explosions at most every few hours into continuous power output.

    Scales great for getting around nuclear test ban treaties though, much quicker to retest than blowing up Pacific islands.

    • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      That sounds like we just gave a bunch of nerds a videogame where they get to throw nukes at random scenery and then claim they’re doing science by writing down the results.