Decommissioning Plan for the National Ignition Facility

Development of nuclear diagnostics for the National Ignition Facility „invited..

The National Ignition Facility NIF will provide up to 1.8 MJ of laser energy for imploding inertial confinement fusion ICF targets. Ignited NIF targets are expected to produce up to 1019 DT neutrons. This will provide unprecedented opportunities and challenges for the use of nuclear diagnostics in ICF experiments. In 2005, the suite of nuclear-ignition diagnostics for the NIF was defined and th...

Direct-Drive Target Designs for the National Ignition Facility

LLE Review, Volume 79 121 The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is currently under construction at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). One of the primary missions of the NIF is to achieve fusion ignition by means of inertial confinement fusion (ICF). Two main approaches have been considered for achieving thermonuclear yield in ICF. The first approach, known as indirectdrive ICF,1 encl...

' . Diagnostic Development at LLNL for the National Ignition Facility

Nuclear diagnostics for the National Ignition Facility „invited..

Nuclear diagnostics for the National Ignition Facility „invited... Thomas J. Murphy, Cris W. Barnes, R. R. Berggren, P. Bradley, S. E. Caldwell, R. E. Chrien, J. R. Faulkner, P. L. Gobby, N. Hoffman, J. L. Jimerson, K. A. Klare, C. L. Lee, J. M. Mack, G. L. Morgan, J. A. Oertel, F. J. Swenson, P. J. Walsh, R. B. Walton, R. G. Watt, M. D. Wilke, D. C. Wilson, and C. S. Young Los Alamos National ...

Note: A monoenergetic proton backlighter for the National Ignition Facility.

A monoenergetic, isotropic proton source suitable for proton radiography applications has been demonstrated at the National Ignition Facility (NIF). A deuterium and helium-3 gas-filled glass capsule was imploded with 39 kJ of laser energy from 24 of NIF's 192 beams. Spectral, spatial, and temporal measurements of the 15-MeV proton product of the (3)He(d,p)(4)He nuclear reaction reveal a bright ...