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bliceroquququq t1_j0rjty1 wrote

Reply to comment by BlueSkyToday in Nuclear fusion breakthrough: What does it mean for space exploration? by Gari_305

My dad was a plasma physicist working on ITER. My general sense of NIF among fusion researchers was that NIF was doing valuable experimental research and its work was important to continuing the advancement of understanding fusion reactions, but basically no one thought /thinks it would ever be a solid approach from a commercial/power production perspective.

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BlueSkyToday t1_j0ut9xn wrote

We may have overlapped.

I left the Lab in '89. I was working for Jeff Paisner in the AVLIS Process Physics group at that time and Ed Moses was Mr. Laser. Ed provided the laser power for both NIF and AVLIS.

Jeff went on to lead NIF and then went to Los Alamos. Ed replaced Jeff at NIF.

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