NIF has never been about power, that was/is purely a marketing gimmick that several lanes of folks piled on to for personal benefits.
NIF has always been about weapons research and testing.
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GIThruster
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Only glanced at it but obviously misleading. It wants you to believe NIF has been in progress for 6 years when in fact it work began in 1994 and construction began 1997. It costs hundreds of milliuons of dollars a year to run so I seriously doubt the $3.5B price tag is accurate. It is pure boondoggle start to finish. Not a weapons program. A jobs program.
From Wiki:
Physicist Richard Garwin described the outcome this way, "Sandia got the microelectronics research center [MESA], which had minimal relevance to the CTBT. Los Alamos got the Dual-Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test facility. Livermore got the National Ignition Facility. They all maintained that these projects were essential to stockpile stewardship, which they are not".
From Wiki:
Physicist Richard Garwin described the outcome this way, "Sandia got the microelectronics research center [MESA], which had minimal relevance to the CTBT. Los Alamos got the Dual-Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test facility. Livermore got the National Ignition Facility. They all maintained that these projects were essential to stockpile stewardship, which they are not".
"Courage is not just a virtue, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." C. S. Lewis
DOE, department of the empire builders. Has more egos and big machines than the rest of the world, combined.
GIThruster wrote:Only glanced at it but obviously misleading. It wants you to believe NIF has been in progress for 6 years when in fact it work began in 1994 and construction began 1997. It costs hundreds of milliuons of dollars a year to run so I seriously doubt the $3.5B price tag is accurate. It is pure boondoggle start to finish. Not a weapons program. A jobs program.
From Wiki:
Physicist Richard Garwin described the outcome this way, "Sandia got the microelectronics research center [MESA], which had minimal relevance to the CTBT. Los Alamos got the Dual-Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test facility. Livermore got the National Ignition Facility. They all maintained that these projects were essential to stockpile stewardship, which they are not".