The National Ignition Facility Diagnostic Set at the Completion of the National Ignition Campaign, September 2012

Kilkenny, J. D.; Bell, P. M.; Bradley, D. K.; Bleuel, D. L.; Caggiano, J. A.; Dewald, E. L.; Hsing, W. W.; Kalantar, D. H.; Kauffman, R. L.; Larson, D. J.; Moody, D. L.; Schneider, D. H.; Schneider, M. B.; Shaughnessy, D. A.; Shelton, R. T.; Stoeffl, W.; Widmann, K.; Yeamans, C. B.; Batha, S. H.; Grim, G. P.; Herrmann, H. W.; Merrill, F. E.; Leeper, R. J.; Oertel, J. A.; Sangster, T. C.; Edgell, D. H.; Hohenberger, M.; Glebov, V. Yu.; Regan, S. P.; Frenje, J. A.; Gatu-Johnson, M.; Petrasso, R. D.; Rinderknecht, H. G.; Zylstra, A. B.; Cooper, G. W.; Ruiz, C.

doi:10.13182/fst15-173

Title: The National Ignition Facility Diagnostic Set at the Completion of the National Ignition Campaign, September 2012

Journal Article · 05 January 2016 · Fusion Science and Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.13182/fst15-173 · OSTI ID:1275511

Kilkenny, J. D. ^[1]; Bell, P. M. ^[2]; Bradley, D. K. ^[2]; Bleuel, D. L. ^[2]; Caggiano, J. A. ^[2]; Dewald, E. L. ^[2]; Hsing, W. W. ^[2]; Kalantar, D. H. ^[2]; Kauffman, R. L. ^[2]; Larson, D. J. ^[2]; Moody, D. L. ^[2]; Schneider, D. H. ^[2]; Schneider, M. B. ^[2]; Shaughnessy, D. A. ^[2]; Shelton, R. T. ^[2]; Stoeffl, W. ^[2]; Widmann, K. ^[2]; Yeamans, C. B. ^[2]; Batha, S. H. ^[3]; Grim, G. P. ^[3] more »

General Atomics, La Jolla, CA (United States)
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Lab. for Laser Energetics, Rochester, NY (United States)
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

At the completion of the National Ignition Campaign (NIC), the National Ignition Facility (NIF) had about 36 different types of diagnostics. These were based on several decades of development on Nova and OMEGA and involved the whole U.S. inertial confinement fusion community. In 1994, the Joint Central Diagnostic Team documented a plan for a limited set of NIF diagnostics in the NIF Conceptual Design Report. Two decades later, these diagnostics, and many others, were installed workhorse tools for all users of NIF. We give a short description of each of the 36 different types of NIC diagnostics grouped by the function of the diagnostics, namely, target drive, target response and target assembly, stagnation, and burn. A comparison of NIF diagnostics with the Nova diagnostics shows that the NIF diagnostic capability is broadly equivalent to that of Nova in 1999. Although NIF diagnostics have a much greater degree of automation and rigor than Nova’s, new diagnostics are limited such as the higher-speed X-ray imager. Lastly, recommendations for future diagnostics on the NIF are discussed.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC04-94AL85000; AC52-07NA27344

OSTI ID:: 1275511

Report Number(s):: LLNL-JRNL-696837; SAND-2016-6853J; 645687

Journal Information:: Fusion Science and Technology, Journal Name: Fusion Science and Technology Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 69; ISSN 1536-1055

Publisher:: American Nuclear SocietyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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