Progress in inertial confinement fusion at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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Aug 1984

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984ppcn.confq..12h&link_type=abstract

Presented at the 10th Intern. Conf. on Plasma Phys. and Controlled Nucl. Fusion Res., London, 12-19 Sep. 1984

Physics

Plasma Physics

Controlled Fusion, Inertial Confinement Fusion, Laser Fusion, Fusion Reactors, Neodymium Lasers, Nova Laser System, Plasma Physics

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The goals of the Inertial Fusion Program at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are to study matter under extreme conditions of temperature and pressure and to produce fusion energy from inertially confined fusion fuel. With the conclusion of multi-kilojoule 0.53 micron experiments on Novette, vastly improved plasma conditions were demonstrated compared to those previously obtained at LLNL with similar energies at 1.06 microns and elsewhere with 10 micron radiation. The lower preheat environment obtainable with short wavelength light led to 3X improvements in the compression of target on Novette compared to similar targets on Shiva with 1.06 microns. Subsequent experiments on Nova with short wavelength light will begin in 1985. They are expected to demonstrate the necessary compression conditions required for high gain fusion to occur when irradiated with a multi-megajoule driver. These results, together with improved calculations, and innovations in driver and reactor technology, indicate that high gain inertial fusion will occur and is a viable candidate for fusion power production in the future.

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