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by dotnet00 1045 days ago
Sure its primary purpose is to gather data on nuclear fusion to help ensure that the nuclear stockpile is reliable without having to test it, but it isn't like them probing the conditions and behaviors of fusion ignition isn't meaningful for fusion reactors as well.
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Yep. There needs to be a way to verify that the simulations run on all of those Department of Energy supercomputers actually translate to reality.