(21st International Symposium on Heavy Ion Inertial Fusion. Autonomous Organization of Education “Nazarbayev University”, 2016-07-18) Burke, Robert J.; Azim, Mansour Hadji; Helsley, Charles E.; Burke, Alexander T.
Readiness for a concerted push to power production
was the underlying theme from the inaugural
HIF Workshop in 1976 through the review
of ICF programs by DOE’s Energy Research
and Advisory Board in 1979. Using John
Lawson’s 1987 paper “Whither Heavy Ion Fusion?”
[1] as a foil, this paper discusses the continuing
vitality of the argument for HIF’s readiness
against the backdrop that this vision is not
in evidence today, having been occluded by political
policies causing diversion of the HIF
community into peripheral science that, although
excellent, is in fact not required to complete
the development of a HIF energy source...