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Lasers
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NIF concentrates all 192 beam energy in a football stadium-sized fac.
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NIF Missions
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FY2010 NIF National Security Goals
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We are developing academic users and need to continue to grow this community
Since last year’s FPA meeting…
• NIF completed, 192 beams operational, dedicated and made
operational with over 175 systems shots showing both
energetic capability of the facility and its precision
• NIC experiments at NIF have begun
— Symmetry control, control over laser plasma interactions
in a variety of warm and cryogenic target configurations
— Now preparing for scale implosion experiments
• First radiation transport milestones completed, now ongoing
• First low energy x-ray effects and first university experiments
conducted
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NIF laser operationally qualified to 1 MJ on March 10, 2009
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Target Chamber Dedication June 1999
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NIF Master Strategy
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2010 National Ignition Campaign
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What are the primary missions and technical objectives of the National Ignition Campaign
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NIF will access density and temperature conditions required for ignition
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NIC is organized into integrated product teams (IPTs)
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Ignition Point Design
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Target fabrication
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Capsule implosions in cryogenic gas-filled hohlraums have shown good symmetry at 270 eV
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Implosion symmetry has been achieved by tuning the wavelength of the outer cone
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Bulletin
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LLE nTOF
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Clean energy: Humankind’s challenge
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LIFE roadmap
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Advanced lasers and modular systems make the facility compact and enable rapid construction and maintenance
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LIFE – a laser inertial fusion engine provides a point source of 14 MeV neutrons for a variety of fusion-based energy missions
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Different LIFE blankets provide unique energy systems
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LIFE Challenges
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DOE has announced the National Academy of Science study of fusion energy future
“The National Ignition Facility is a
marvel, and while the Laboratory
will achieve ignition, we need to
think about what we should be
doing in a year or two from today."
“ Steve Koonin is already heading
up an effort at DOE for inertial
fusion energy R&D planning. DOE
should assume ignition success in
that planning, and not wait for NIF
ignition to start such planning.”
- Stephen Chu U.S. Secretary of Energy
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NIF Missions
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