Utility of the US National Ignition Facility for development of inertial fusion energy
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
- California Univ., Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Schafer (W.J.) Associates, Inc., Livermore, CA (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)
- SRI International, Menlo Park, CA (United States). Poulter Lab.
- California Univ., Los Angeles, CA (United States)
- General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
The demonstration of inertial fusion ignition and gain in the proposed US National Ignition Facility (NIF), along with the parallel demonstration of the feasibility of an efficient, high-repetition-rate driver, would provide the basis for a follow-on Engineering Test Facility (ETF), a facility for integrated testing of the technologies needed for inertial fusion-energy (IFE) power plants. A workshop was convened at the University of California, Berkeley on February 22--24, 1994, attended by 61 participants from 17 US organizations, to identify possible NIF experiments relevant to IFE. We considered experiments in four IFE areas: Target physics, target chamber dynamics, fusion power ethnology, and target systems, as defined in the following sections.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 101134
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-JC--117018; CONF-940933--44; ON: DE95015094
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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