RE: Sandia finally gets fusion via X-ray compression

From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Tue Apr 08 2003 - 15:37:23 MDT

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    --- Emlyn O'regan <oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au>
    wrote:
    > "It's the first observation of fusion for a pulsed
    > power source," said Dr.
    > Ramon J. Leeper, manager of the target physics
    > department at Sandia, in
    > Albuquerque, who presented the findings at a meeting
    > of the American
    > Physical Society here.

    Maybe for Sandia specifically, but intertial
    containment fusion itself has been around for quite
    some time. This isn't a worldwide first; heck, the
    time scales most fusion experiments run on
    (milliseconds) practically makes 'em inertial
    containment even if they're not supposed to be.

    When someone can sustain a fusion reaction in the
    laboratory (thus, excluding the sun) for an entire
    second, then we'll have something.

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