Progress and prospects for indirect drive ICF

Conference · Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1992

OSTI ID:6783604

Lindl, J D

During the past few years, a great deal of progress has been made toward demonstrating the requirements for ignition and high gain ICF targets. Because of this progress, the 1990 National Academy of Science (NAS) and Fusion Policy Advisory Committee (FPAC) reviews recommended that the US National ICF Program focus on the physics of ignition. Subject to successful completion of a series of experiments to be carried out on the Nova laser at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), these reviews advocated construction of a 1 to 2 MJ glass laser, whose purpose would be demonstration of ignition and modest-gain ICF targets within about a decade. The LLNL proposal for this National Ignition Facility, which was endorsed by the NAS and FPAC as the most timely and cost effective path to this goal, is referred to as the Nova Upgrade.'' This paper reviews recent progress on the Nova laser and the performance expected with the Nova Upgrade.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 6783604
• Report Number(s): UCRL-JC-110279; CONF-9209290--4; ON: DE93006280
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
700411* -- Inertial Confinement Devices-- (1992-)
CONFINEMENT
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
IMPLOSIONS
INDIRECT DRIVE LASER IMPLOSION
INERTIAL CONFINEMENT
INSTABILITY
ION BEAM TARGETS
IONIZING RADIATIONS
LASER IMPLOSIONS
LASER TARGETS
MODIFICATIONS
NOVA FACILITY
PLASMA CONFINEMENT
RADIATIONS
RAYLEIGH-TAYLOR INSTABILITY
TARGETS
X RADIATION