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Describe the facility architecture, laser performance, and commissioning milestones of the National Ignition Facility designed to achieve inertial confinement fusion and extreme high-energy-density conditions.

November 27, 2004Nuclear FusionOpen Access

The National Ignition Facility: enabling fusion ignition for the 21st century

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GMGeorge H. MillerFairfield University EMEdward I. MosesFusion for Energy CWC. WuestNevada National Security Site

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Technical evaluation demonstrates early laser commissioning performance and operational readiness at the National Ignition Facility, highlighting pathways toward controlled thermonuclear burn.

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Describe the facility architecture, laser performance, and commissioning milestones of the National Ignition Facility designed to achieve inertial confinement fusion and extreme high-energy-density conditions.
Engineered an environmentally controlled facility housing a 192-beam, 1.8 MJ, 500 TW ultraviolet laser architecture centered around a 10-meter-diameter target chamber.
Commissioned and tested an initial four-beam configuration activated in late 2002 across nearly 250 experimental system shots.
Achieved beam outputs of 106 kJ in 23 ns pulses of infrared light across the four activated beamlines.
Delivered over 16 kJ in 3.5 ns pulses at the third harmonic ultraviolet wavelength of 351 nm.
Established experimental capabilities aimed at achieving matter temperatures near 10^8 K and pressures of 10^11 bar required for thermonuclear burn.

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Miller et al. (2004) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a79957614b028facf0ddc03 https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/44/12/s14

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Technical evaluation demonstrates early laser commissioning performance and operational readiness at the National Ignition Facility, highlighting pathways toward controlled thermonuclear burn.

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