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- From: siegman@EE.Stanford.EDU (Anthony E. Siegman)
- Subject: Re: inertial fusion
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.191022.5470@EE.Stanford.EDU>
- Organization: Stanford University
- References: <1992Jul27.161712.14850@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 19:10:22 GMT
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- >Does anyone know the state of research of inertial fusion is at?
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- LLNL program has been quite competently and aggressively managed and
- carried out (IMHO), and has spent massive Gigabucks over past couple
- of decade or so. It's still going on, with reasonable support, so far
- as I know.
-
- >How close to breakeven, compared to tokomaks?
-
- Still long ways away. And (again strictly IMH--and nonexpert--O) it's
- not going to get there, and would be unlikely to be an economically
- feasible power source if it did.
-
- >Is anyone besides LLNL is US or
- >world doing research on inertial fusion?
-
- Japanese _had_ a fair-sized effort (at Osaka); present status not
- known to me. Modest effort, only being half-heartedly pursued, so far
- as I can see, at Garching in Germany. University of Rochester still
- carrying on rather modest effort (I think). Russian work? There was
- some, but I don't know the status. Los Alamos: mostly turned off, I
- think. Others? -- May be, but I don't know of any.
-
- --AES
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