United States Senator Chuck Schumer and U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz paid a visit to the University of Rochester’s Laser Energetics Lab Thursday afternoon, with the New York Democrat pushing to keep growing the laser lab and its push for fusion ignition.
Schumer and other New York lawmakers have pushed annual federal funding of the laser lab, to the tune of $68 million in the current budget. Schumer is trying to make a case to boost it to $75 million a year.
The Laser Lab is one of the nation’s leading research centers for optics, photonics and the attempt to generate a controlled hydrogen fusion reaction.