Resolving a central ICF issue for ignition: Implosion symmertry
- and others
The Los Alamos National Laboratory Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) Program focuses on resolving key target-physics issues and developing technology needed for the National Ignition Facility (NIF). This work is being performed in collaboration with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). A major requirement for the indirect-drive NIF ignition target is to achieve the irradiation uniformity on the capsule surface needed for a symmetrical high-convergence implosion. Los Alamos employed an integrated modeling technique using the Lasnex radiation-hydrodynamics code to design two different targets that achieve ignition and moderate gain. Los Alamos is performing experiments on the Nova Laser at LLNL in order to validate our NIF ignition calculations.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Lab., NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 10182075
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-94-2879; CONF-940933-1; ON: DE94018297; TRN: 94:018875
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 15. international conference on plasma physics and controlled nuclear fusion research,Madrid (Spain),26 Sep - 1 Oct 1994; Other Information: PBD: [1994]
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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