Then Dr . Paul R . Renne, president of the Berkeley Geochronology Center in California, ran tests with a recently perfected geological dating technology known as argon-argon single crystal laser fusion.
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The DoE saw KMS Fusion involved by commercial mass production of laser fusion targets and that is what they did for the national labs that could not make their own targets.
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Stephen Oskoui, 17, of Pittsford, N . Y ., conducted research on laser fusion, a project he squeezed in while running the web site and software development company he started two years ago.
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The laser fusion research that he gave to the Chinese was declassified by Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary in 1993, prompting several of Lee's former colleagues to recommend a lenient sentence to the sentencing judge.
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Commercial laser fusion systems would use the much more efficient diode-pumped solid state lasers, where wall-plug efficiencies of 10 percent have been demonstrated, and efficiencies 16-18 percent are expected with advanced concepts under development.
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Laser fusion involves firing a large laser at pellets of nuclear fuel to heat them to extremely high temperatures at which their atomic nuclei merge, or " fuse, " and release nuclear fusion energy.
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The streak camera, used for diagnostics in laser fusion, plasma radiation, and combustion, operates in burst mode only ( providing just several frames ) and requires synchronization of the camera with the event to be captured.
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Asked about the letter, officials at the State Department and the Energy Department said that laser fusion experiments of lower power had always been granted special exemptions during negotiations for test ban treaties, including the latest one.
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Fusion is on the ropes partly because it lacks a " real super-champion . . . in Congress or the Energy Department, " said E . Michael Campbell, a " laser fusion " researcher at Lawrence Livermore Lab.
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They would also let engineers explore the possibility of commercial power plants based on this type of " laser fusion, " and they would offer scientists the chance to probe matter under conditions never before created in a laboratory.
