Environmental assessment: OMEGA Upgrade Project at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester

Technical Report · Fri May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1992

OSTI ID:7258699

The OMEGA laser system at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics (UR/LLE) is the only major facility in the United States capable of conducting fully diagnosed direct-drive, spherical-implosion Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) experiments. The LLE also serves as the National Laser Users Facility, available to scientists throughout the country for high energy density laser-matter interaction experiments. In the mid-1980s, the University initiated a request to begin investigations to upgrade the OMEGA laser system. The purpose of the OMEGA Upgrade will provide a unique national resource capable of achieving sufficient thermonuclear yield to address ignition-scaling physics issues for the Inertial Fusion Research Program. Multi-laboratory collaborative experiments to investigate a number of important ICF issues (ignition scaling, fuel-pusher interface mix, preheat, long-scale-length plasma physics, and hydrodynamic instabilities) will be carried out on the upgraded facility. These experiments will increase the confidence associated with the success of a national high-gain laboratory facility.

• Research Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• OSTI ID: 7258699
• Report Number(s): DOE/EA-0548; ON: DE92040410
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
540250 -- Environment
Terrestrial-- Site Resource & Use Studies-- (1990-)
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
700411* -- Inertial Confinement Devices-- (1992-)
BEAM TRANSPORT
CONFINEMENT
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
INERTIAL CONFINEMENT
LASER FUSION REACTORS
LASER TARGETS
MONITORING
OMEGA FACILITY
PLASMA CONFINEMENT
RADIATION EFFECTS
RADIATION MONITORING
RADIATION PROTECTION
TARGETS
THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS