Inertial Confinement Fusion - The NNSA Perspective

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BIOGRAPHY

Mike Sheehy completed his undergraduate studies in Structural Engineering at the University of Maryland with a minor in Nuclear Engineering.  He then commission as an officer in the US Army.  After serving five years, he left as a Captain and worked as a structural engineer for the Department of Veterans Affairs.  While working, he completed his Masters of Nuclear Engineering at Penn State.  Mike started at the NNSA as a federal program manager overseeing the Z-Pulsed Power Facility at Sandia National Laboratories.  Mike now works on the Inertial Confinement Fusion team at the NNSA sponsoring cutting edge fusion research.

ABSTRACT

NNSA is a semi-autonomous agency within the U.S. Department of Energy Responsible fore enhancing national security through the military application of nuclear science.  NNSA maintains and enhances the safety, security, and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile; works to reduce the global danger from weapons of mass destruction; provides the U.S. Navy with safe and militarily effective nuclear propulsion; and responds to nuclear and radiological emergencies in the United States and abroad.  With a focus on cutting edge research at the national laboratories, and with historic breakthroughs such as achieving fusion ignition, NNSA is at the forefront of scientific discovery.