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The national ignition facility and atomic data

Journal Article · · AIP Conference Proceedings
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.56174· OSTI ID:647347
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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{close_quote}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. {copyright} {ital 1998 American Institute of Physics.}
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
OSTI ID:
647347
Report Number(s):
CONF-970960--
Journal Information:
AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 434; ISSN 0094-243X; ISSN APCPCS
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English