Saturday 13 September 2014

Former National Ignition Facility head to lead telescope project - SFGate

"(09-12) 17:35 PDT SAN FRANCISCO --Ed Moses, who until a year ago led efforts to create a self-sustaining source of thermonuclear energy at the National Ignition Facility in Livermore, has taken a new job as head of a project to build the world's largest ground-based telescope in Chile.

Known as the Giant Magellan Telescope, or GMT, the instrument will combine seven huge optical mirrors to yield the observing power and sensitivity of a single adjustable mirror 800 feet in diameter.

Moses, an eminent laser scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory since 1980, took a leave from NIF about a year ago after enduring years of controversy as science teams there repeatedly proved unable to achieve their goal of what in effect would be controlling the energy of an H-bomb to possibly provide a sustainable source of clean power."

http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Former-National-Ignition-Facility-head-to-lead-5752215.php



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