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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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