# Presentation: 844371

## The NIF Ignition Campaign

**Presentation to****Heavy Ion Fusion Science – Virtual National Laboratory Program Advisory Committee**

**Brian MacGowan**
**Physics & Systems Engineering **
**National Ignition Campaign**
**Aug. 9, 2006**

- Work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by the University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract No. W-7405-ENG-48.

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## Extract from the point design requirements document

**The current version (rev 1) has 81 lines with supporting tables and drawings**
**There are additional requirements for the campaigns leading up to ignition**

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## Four Integrated Experiment Teams are developing the requirements for the campaigns leading up to ignition 

**Laser**
**Performance**

**Hohlraum**
**Performance**

**Capsule**
**Performance**

**Ignition**
**Performance**

**Pulse shaping, power balance, pointing, beam conditioning**

**Energy coupling, radiation characteristics, radiation symmetry**

**Shock timing, material ablation and state, hydrodynamic stability**

**Point design**
**Overall ignition campaign plan Integrated implosions, ignition failure diagnostics**

**Four Integrated Experiment Teams are developing the requirements for the campaigns leading up to ignition **

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## NIF/NIC integrated summary schedule

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## Major elements of the National Ignition Campaign

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## User optics condition and size the beams as required by the point design

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## Multiple diagnostic and cryogenics systems willbe commissioned for the FY10 ignition campaign

**The scope includes systems already in place, and new installations**

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## Energetics diagnostics installed and working include Dante and FFLEX detector arrays

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## DT ice layers in a carbon shell at 1.5 Kbelow the melt meet the NIF roughness spec

**75 μm thick DT ice layer**

**• ****NIF roughness spec for modes 7 and above is an RMS of 0.93 μm**
**•****	****DT ice layers have been grown with an RMS of ≤ 0.9 μm for modes 7 and above**

**DT vapor density is 0.3 mg/cc**

**Carbon shell**

**X-ray phase contrast image**

**Fill-tube**

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## The NIC has brought together NNSA’s ICF programs

**NIC is an enhanced managed program and is operated within a project framework and with project-like rigor**
**Formation of the NIC “enterprise” has many benefits**
**Integrated budget and earned value management system**
**Integrated schedule and milestones**
**Integrated risk management across all activities at all sites**
**Integrated work breakdown structure**
**Improved and increased communications**
**Daily interactions, weekly VTCs, monthly and ****quarterly reviews**

**We have a unified and focused goal of ignition on NIF**

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