The national ignition facility and atomic data

Journal Article · Wed Jul 08 04:00:00 EDT 1998 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.56174· OSTI ID:21199151

Crandall, David H ^[1]

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1. Office of Inertial Fusion and the NIF, Defense Programs, US Department of Energy, Washington, District of Columbia 20585 (United States)

The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is under construction, capping over 25 years of development of the inertial confinement fusion concept by providing the facility to obtain fusion ignition in the laboratory for the first time. The NIF is a 192 beam glass laser to provide energy controlled in space and time so that a millimeter-scale capsule containing deuterium and tritium can be compressed to fusion conditions. Light transport, conversion of light in frequency, interaction of light with matter in solid and plasma forms, and diagnostics of extreme material conditions on small scale all use atomic data in preparing for use of the NIF. The NIF will provide opportunity to make measurements of atomic data in extreme physical environments related to fusion energy, nuclear weapon detonation, and astrophysics. The first laser beams of NIF should be operational in 2001 and the full facility completed at the end of 2003. NIF is to provide 1.8 megajoule of blue light on fusion targets and is intended to achieve fusion ignition by about the end of 2007. Today's inertial fusion development activities use atomic data to design and predict fusion capsule performance and in non-fusion applications to analyze radiation transport and radiation effects on matter. Conditions investigated involve radiation temperature of hundreds of eV, pressures up to gigabars and time scales of femptoseconds.

• OSTI ID: 21199151
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 434; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY
D-T OPERATION
DEUTERIUM
EV RANGE
ICF DEVICES
INERTIAL CONFINEMENT
INERTIAL FUSION DRIVERS
LASER FUSION REACTORS
LASER-PRODUCED PLASMA
LASERS
PHOTON-ATOM COLLISIONS
PLASMA DIAGNOSTICS
PLASMA HEATING
RADIATION EFFECTS
RADIATION TRANSPORT
TRITIUM
US NATIONAL IGNITION FACILITY