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Plasma and Fusion Research

Volume 6, 1104012 (2011)

Review Articles

Recent Progress in Ignition Fusion Research on the National Ignition Facility
Ramon J. LEEPER and The National Ignition Campaign Team
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185 USA
(Received 17 December 2010 / Accepted 21 January 2011 / Published 4 March 2011)

Abstract

This paper will review the ignition fusion research program that is currently being carried out on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. This work is being conducted under the auspices of the National Ignition Campaign (NIC) that is a broad collaboration of national laboratories and universities that together have developed a detailed research plan whose goal is ignition in the laboratory. The paper will begin with a description of the NIF facility and associated experimental facilities. The paper will then focus on the ignition target and hohlraum designs that will be tested in the first ignition attempts on NIF. The next topic to be introduced will be a description of the diagnostic suite that has been developed for the initial ignition experiments on NIF. The paper will then describe the experimental results that were obtained in experiments conducted during the fall of 2009 on NIF. Finally, the paper will end with a description of the detailed experimental plans that have been developed for the first ignition campaign that will begin later this year.

Keywords

National Ignition Facility (NIF), National Ignition Campaign (NIC), Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) ignition, NIF diagnostics, NIF experimental plan

DOI: 10.1585/pfr.6.1104012

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This paper may be cited as follows:

Ramon J. LEEPER and The National Ignition Campaign Team, Plasma Fusion Res. 6, 1104012 (2011).