“In recreating the process of fusion it was always understood that we could pursue three areas of interest and value,” explained Dr Erik Storm of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the home of the National Ignition Facility (NIF).
First and foremost, NIF has been built for national security purposes, to study the conditions that exist in nuclear explosions and the way that nuclear weapons perform.
“That gives you an ability to maintain a credible nuclear deterrent in the absence of underground nuclear testing,” said Dr Storm.
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