NIF system-design requirements for nuclear-weapons physics experiments

Technical Report · Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 EST 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/91882· OSTI ID:91882

Perry, T S ^[1]; Wilde, B H ^[2]

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1. ed.; Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
2. ed.; Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)

One of the objectives of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) is to provide an aboveground experimental capability for conducting weapons-physics experiments, for maintaining nuclear competence. To achieve the high-energy-density regimes needed for a science-based stockpile stewardship program, NIF must produce conditions similar to those in nuclear weapon explosions. This imposes fundamental facility design requirements on NIF. This document summarizes those requirements for opacity, radiation-flow, equation-of-state, non-LTE and x-ray laser, hydrodynamic, and capsule-implosion experiments.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 91882
• Report Number(s): UCRL-ID-120738; ON: DE95016187
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Apr 1995
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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