Could This Lump Power the Planet?

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Cannibal

This is another pesky government program. No good can come from it. All funding should be pulled immediately and the facility should be permanently closed.

Surely you are aware that there are strong calls to end this from the left and the right.

From a fiscally conservative side, the NIF has been shadily funded by Enronning the fee structure throughout Lawrence Livermore so that more conventional research in the facility pulls outrageous fees so NIF can reduce it's fees to slide in under it's allocated funding. Watchdogs have pinning the overspending at 2 billion over authorized on this project alone.

From the anti-war left side, NIF has been sold to Congress as a weapons, not energy [not until recently], development program. ie, they want fusion so that they can create nuclear weapons out of anything, not just weapon's grade plutonium as with fission. And there are tons of resolutions condemning them for violating non-proliferation treaties.