UTILITY OF THE US NATIONAL IGNITION FACILITY FOR DEVELOPMENT OF INERTIAL FUSION ENERGY

摘要

The paper assesses the potential contributions of the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) to the development of Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE). It is found that the NIF can provide important data in areas of target physics and fabrication technology useful to a variety of IFE driver and target options, in generic IFE target chamber phenomena and materials responses to target emissions, and in many IFE fusion power technology areas.