University of Chicago scientist explains fusion ignition
"This code has enabled us to do experiments at NIF and other laser facilities around the world that help us to understand the physical processes that nature has thrown in our way," Dr. Lamb said.
"We've made it to be able to train generations of young people as undergraduate students, graduate students, and post-docs – not only at the University of Chicago, but universities around the world," said Dr. Lamb."The code now has a group of users of over 6,000 around the world. Most use it for these types of laser experiments."
"Now that we've actually been able to do this and achieve a breakeven in inertial confinement fusion, nature can't throw anymore tricks our way," Lamb said."But how long will it be before inertial confinement fusion can produce clean energy without radioactive waste as happens with nuclear reactors or with carbon generation and so on. And this is hard to know the answer to. But we're in a different ballgame now.
"It's not really fair to only talk about how much energy the lasers put into the target and how much came out, because it started out with firing up these banks of capacitors, and then there was some inefficiency," Dr. Lamb said."So if you ask how much energy we actually use, the electrical energy we use compared to the energy coming out where it's still a fairly large factor away from breakeven.
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