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The National Direct-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion Program

Journal Article · · Nuclear Fusion
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  1. Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States). Lab. for Laser Energetics; Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester
  2. Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States). Lab. for Laser Energetics
  3. Naval Research Lab. (NRL), Washington, DC (United States). Plasma Physics Division
  4. Schafer Corporation, Livermore, CA (United States)
  5. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  6. General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
  7. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Plasma Science and Fusion Center
  8. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
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The National Direct-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion Program consists of the 100-Gbar Campaign on the 30-kJ, 351-nm, 60-beam OMEGA Laser System and the Megajoule Direct-Drive (MJDD) Campaign on the 1.8-MJ, 351-nm, 192-beam National Ignition Facility (NIF). The main goals of the 100-Gbar Campaign are to demonstrate and understand the physics for hot-spot conditions and formation relevant for ignition at the MJ scale, while the MJDD Campaign seeks to understand the laser-plasma interactions, energy coupling, and laser imprint for ignition-scale direct-drive coronal plasmas. An overview of the multi-year, systematic effort that is underway for the National Direct-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion Program (including laser, target, and diagnostic improvements in progress), as well as recent results from the 100-Gbar Campaign on OMEGA and the MJDD Campaign on NIF is presented in this paper.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States). Lab. for Laser Energetics
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
Grant/Contract Number:
NA0001944
OSTI ID:
1487239
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1835040
OSTI ID: 22929648
Report Number(s):
2017--53; 1--456; 2017-53, 1456, 2413
Journal Information:
Nuclear Fusion, Journal Name: Nuclear Fusion Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 59; ISSN 0029-5515
Publisher:
IOP ScienceCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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