Jonathon Hill: “We finally got ignition at the national ignition facility.”

“You know, if I had, if we were taking votes, I'd vote for it today. Let's get it going. But there's still a lot of technical hurdles there. I mean, We finally got ignition at the national ignition facility. That's like a fraction of a percent of the way there. So I think maybe our grandchildren, our great grandchildren, hopefully it'll be ready for them.” (1:29:58–1:30:02)

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