National Ignition Facility — Recommended Reading and Viewing
VIDEO: “Ignition Omission: Understanding the National Ignition Facility Milestone” by Steven B. Krivit, New Energy Times (Dec. 21, 2022)
“The Energy Department’s fusion breakthrough: It’s not really about generating electricity,” by John Mecklin, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Dec. 16, 2022)
“Fusion Net Gain Is Manufactured Ignorance,” by Darrin Durant, Arena, (Dec. 16, 2022)
“What I Got Wrong About the National Ignition Facility Fusion Story,” by Steven B. Krivit, New Energy Times (Dec. 15, 2022)
“Fusion ‘Breakthrough’ Won’t Lead to Practical Fusion Energy Just one more step on the long road to commercialization,” By Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum (Dec. 14, 2022)
“National Ignition Facility: The Emperor of Laser Fusion Has No Clothes,” by Steven B. Krivit, New Energy Times (Dec. 14, 2022)
“The Real Fusion Energy Breakthrough Is Still Decades Away,”by Gregory Barber, Wired, (Dec. 13, 2022)
“National Ignition Facility surpasses long-awaited fusion milestone,” by David Kramer, Physics Today (Dec. 13, 2022)
“There is no “breakthrough”: NIF fusion power still consumes 130 times more energy than it creates,” Tom Hartsfield, BigThink (Dec. 13, 2022)
“DOE National Laboratory Makes History by Achieving Fusion Ignition Hoax,” by Steven B. Krivit, New Energy Times (Dec. 13, 2022)
“Fusion Energy Breakthrough Scam,” by Steven B. Krivit, New Energy Times (Dec. 11, 2022)
“Why Achieving “Fusion Ignition” Is Not Relevant to Practical Laser Fusion Progress,” by Steven B. Krivit, New Energy Times (Feb. 24, 2022)
“Why Achieving a “Burning Plasma” Is Not Relevant to Practical Laser Fusion Power,” by Steven B. Krivit, New Energy Times (Feb. 2, 2022)
“Why Scientific Breakeven Is Not Relevant to Practical Laser Fusion Progress,” by Steven B. Krivit, New Energy Times (Feb. 2, 2022)
“National Ignition Facility Achieves Ignition in Historic Nuclear Fusion Experiment,” by Steven B. Krivit, New Energy Times (Aug. 29, 2021)