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Presenter: Edward Moses (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
email: wuest@llnl.gov
Review Status: Proceedings Ready - 01/29/02
FullText: pdf
Eprint: physics/0111063

The National Ignition Facility: Status and Plans for Laser Fusion and High-Energy-Density Experimental Studies {*}

E.I. Moses (LLNL)

The National Ignition Facility (NIF) currently under construction at the University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is a 192-beam, 1.8-Megajoule, 500-Terawatt, 351-nm laser for inertial confinement fusion and high energy density experimental studies. NIF is being built by the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Agency to provide an experimental test bed for the US Stockpile Stewardship Program to ensure the country's nuclear deterrent without underground nuclear testing. The experimental program will encompass a wide range of physical phenomena from fusion energy production to materials science. Of the roughly 700 shots available per year, about 10% will be dedicated to basic science research. Laser hardware is modularized into line replaceable units such as deformable mirrors, amplifiers, and multi-function sensor packages that are operated by a distributed computer control system of nearly 60,000 control points. The supervisory control room presents facility-wide status and orchestrates experiments using operating parameters predicted by physics models. A network of several hundred front-end processors implements device control. The object-oriented software system is implemented in the Ada and Java languages and emphasizes CORBA distribution of reusable software objects. NIF is currently scheduled to provide first light in 2004 and will be completed in 2008.
{*} This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under contract No. W-7405-Eng-48.
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