The National Ignition Campaign (NIC) was a multi-institution effort established under the
National Nuclear Security Administration of DOE in 2005, prior to the completion of the …

The 1990 National Academy of Science final report of its review of the Inertial Confinement
Fusion Program recommended completion of a series of target physics objectives on the 10 …

This book is on inertial confinement fusion, an alternative way to produce electrical power
from hydrogen fuel by using powerful lasers or particle beams. It involves the compression of …

Point design targets have been specified for the initial ignition campaign on the National
Ignition Facility [GH Miller, EI Moses, and CR Wuest, Opt. Eng. 443, 2841 (2004)]. The …

The performance of a targets designed for the National Ignition Facility (NIF) are simulated in
three dimensions using the HYDRA multiphysics radiation hydrodynamics code.[M. Marinak …

The octahedral spherical hohlraum provides an ideal and practical approach for indirect-
drive toward a dream fusion with predictable and reproducible gain and opens a route to the …

Capsule performance optimization campaigns will be conducted at the National Ignition
Facility [GH Miller, EI Moses, and CR Wuest, Nucl. Fusion 44, 228 (2004)] to substantially …

Compression and ignition of deuterium–tritium fuel under conditions relevant to the scheme
of fast ignition by laser generated proton beams [Roth et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 436 (2001)] …

Physical pictures for high energy density HED plasmas rely on models of the plasma
properties. For example, the inner structure of astrophysical plasmas such as stars is often …

Indirect drive implosion experiments on the National Ignition Facility (NIF)[EI Moses et al.,
Phys. Plasmas 16, 041006 (2009)] have now tested three different ablator materials: glow …