The National Ignition Facility : Studying the Stars in the Laboratory

Recent Progress in Ignition Fusion Research on the National Ignition Facility∗)

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 p...

The National Ignition Facility: the path to a carbon-free energy future.

The National Ignition Facility (NIF), the world's largest and most energetic laser system, is now operational at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The NIF will enable exploration of scientific problems in national strategic security, basic science and fusion energy. One of the early NIF goals centres on achieving laboratory-scale thermonuclear ignition and energy gain, demonstrating the f...

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...

Studying Nuclear Physics in Hot, Dense Plasmas at the National Ignition Facility

OMEGA Experimental Program and Recent Results

LLE Review, Volume 72 161 The Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) with its OMEGA facility is part of the national laser-fusion effort within the U.S. Department of Energy and has as its main mission direct-drive laser-fusion research in support of the upcoming National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). The upgraded OMEGA laser system has been in ope...