Editing Inertial confinement fusion (section)

===Development begins===
In 1967 [[Kip Siegel]] started KMS Industries. In the early 1970s he formed [[KMS Fusion]] to begin development of a laser-based ICF system.<ref name=Johnston>Sean Johnston, [http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/29299.html "Interview with Dr. Larry Siebert"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012113800/http://www.aip.org/history/ohilist/29299.html |date=2012-10-12 }}, American Institute of Physics, 4 September 2004</ref> This development led to considerable opposition from the weapons labs, including LLNL, who put forth a variety of reasons that KMS should not be allowed to develop ICF in public. This opposition was funnelled through the [[United States Atomic Energy Commission|Atomic Energy Commission]], which controlled funding. Adding to the background noise were rumours of an aggressive Soviet ICF program, new higher-powered CO<sub>2</sub> and glass lasers, the electron beam driver concept, and the [[1970s energy crisis|energy crisis]] which added impetus to many energy projects.{{sfn|Nuckolls|1998|p=6}}

In 1972 [[John Nuckolls]] wrote a paper introducing ICF and suggesting that testbed systems could be made to generate fusion with drivers in the kJ range, and high-gain systems with MJ drivers.<ref>{{Citation |last1=Nuckolls |first1=John |last2=Wood |first2=Lowell |last3=Thiessen |first3=Albert |last4=Zimmerman |first4=George |title=Laser Compression of Matter to Super-High Densities: Thermonuclear (CTR) Applications |journal=Nature |volume=239 |issue=5368 |year=1972 |pages=139–142 |doi=10.1038/239139a0 |bibcode = 1972Natur.239..139N |s2cid=45684425 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Lindl |first=J.D. |contribution=The Edward Teller medal lecture: The evolution toward Indirect Drive and two decades of progress toward ICF ignition and burn |year=1993 |title=International workshop on laser interaction and related plasma phenomena |publisher=Department of Energy (DOE)'s Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) |url=http://www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/10126383-6NAuBK/native/10126383.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/10126383-6NAuBK/native/10126383.pdf |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |access-date=August 23, 2014}}</ref>

In spite of limited resources and business problems, [[KMS Fusion]] successfully demonstrated IFC fusion on 1 May 1974.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200912/backpage.cfm |first=Philip |last=Wyatt |title=The Back Page |publisher=Aps.org |date=December 2009 |access-date=2014-08-23}}</ref> This success was soon followed by Siegel's death and the end of KMS Fusion a year later.<ref name=Johnston/> By this point several weapons labs and universities had started their own programs, notably the [[solid-state laser]]s ([[List of laser types#Solid-state lasers|Nd:glass laser]]s) at LLNL and the [[University of Rochester]], and [[krypton fluoride]] [[excimer laser]]s systems at [[Los Alamos National Laboratory|Los Alamos]] and the [[Naval Research Laboratory]].