National Ignition Facility Target Chamber.

Wavrik, R. W. ; Cox, J. R. ; Fleming, P. J.

Technical Information Center Oak Ridge Tennessee

关键词: Target chambers;    Lasers;    Design;    Requirements;    Testing;   

RP-ID  :  DE200515013138

学科分类：工程和技术（综合）

美国|英语

来源: National Technical Reports Library

【 摘 要 】

On June 11, 1999 the Department of Energy dedicated the single largest piece of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in Livermore, California. The ten (10) meter diameter aluminum target high vacuum chamber will serve as the working end of the largest laser in the world. The output of 192 laser beams will converge at the precise center of the chamber. The laser beams will enter the chamber in two by two arrays to illuminate 10 millimeter long gold cylinders called hohlraums enclosing 2 millimeter capsule containing deuterium, tritium and isotopes of hydrogen. The two isotopes will fuse, thereby creating temperatures and pressures resembling those found only inside stars and in detonated nuclear weapons, but on a minute scale. The NIF Project will serve as an essential facility to insure safety and reliability of our nation's nuclear arsenal as well as demonstrating inertial fusion's contribution to creating electrical power. The paper will discuss the requirements that had to be addressed during the design, fabrication and testing of the target chamber.