Like the Manhattan Project itself, the driving force behind laser fusion _ the reason the Department of Energy is funding it _ is national security.
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Work at the site would also include unclassified research on the use of laser fusion to generate energy for peaceful purposes, like power plants, he said.
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His studies and theories on magnetic plasma confinement and on the magnetic thermonuclear reactor eventually led to the introduction of large electromagnetic pulse devices and laser fusion.
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It can also be used to investigate a possible new energy source, laser fusion, and to simulate astrophysical phenomena such as the insides of stars, they say.
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Israel has also reportedly investigated laser fusion to maintain its secret nuclear arsenal, the existence of which is generally acknowledged by U . S . arms-control authorities.
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In February 1971, two years after the proposed idea, KMS was granted a contract from the commission that would allow the company to work in laser fusion.
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However, the AEC had considered laser fusion to be directly related to weapons development, and the news of KMS Fusion s entry into the field raised many eyebrows.
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Tom McEwan, an electronics engineer at the Livermore laboratory who invented the radar, said it originated in a multimillion-dollar system designed to detect particles in laser fusion research.
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He spent an assignment with the NASA Ames Research Center in 1976 on SETI, where he advanced a concept to directly detect extrasolar planets, following suggestions by laser fusion.
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In January 2012, Mike Dunne, director of NIF's laser fusion energy program, predicted in a Photonics West 2012 plenary talk that ignition would be achieved at NIF by October 2012.
