SPIE – Video: Progress toward inertial fusion ignition at NIF
SPIE – Video: Progress toward inertial fusion ignition at NIF
15 February 2012
With everything in place, what are the prospects for success at the National Ignition Facility? Mike Dunne looks ahead.
Mike Dunne joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2010 as program director for Laser Fusion Energy. This role includes leadership of the LIFE (Laser Inertial Fusion Energy) project, which is designed to build from National Ignition Facility ignition to deliver electrical power to the United States at the gigawatt plant scale.
To date, all of the capabilies needed to conduct implosion experiments and demonstrate ignition and burn at NIF by the end of 2012 are in place. In this video, Dunne explains hurdles that have been overcome and challenges still remaining to achieve ignition.
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