Message posted by FromAcrossTheOcean (Member since 04/21/2021) on March 15, 2023 at 6:24:56 PST:
"a milestone that tantalized the inertial confinement fusion (ICF) community for more than 60 years and launching the age of controlled fusion ignition in the laboratory." https://lasers.llnl.gov/news/star-power-blazing-the-path-to-ignition "safe to use in nuclear environments" very likely refers to conditions after explosion of a nuclear (fission) weapon (aka "atomic bomb") or thermonuclear (fusion) bomb Nuclear (fission) powered aircraft were put to rest for a very good reason in the late 1950s already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear-powered_aircraft Radioisotope "batteries" can be used as a source of electricity but for a good reason are normally restricted to deep-space missions, although the USSR used some to supply electricity to facilities in the Arctic. Already that is a pretty bad idea if you forget to properly dispose them off later - and putting them on a high-performance aircraft even less so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_battery
Nuclear fusion is still at the stage of basic research in physics and such things never gonna fly:
In Reply to: Re: Lockheed being a tease posted by Casper on March 14, 2023 at 13:49:14 PST:
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