Xcimer Energy names University of Rochester fusion scientist Cliff Thomas chief scientist

• Xcimer Energy appointed Cliff Thomas as chief scientist for its fusion program.
• Thomas joined from the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics, where he worked on inertial confinement fusion research.
• He previously spent more than a decade at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, proposing and demonstrating low gas fill HDC implosions on NIF.

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