National Ignition Facility (192 beam): Appendix A, Design and planning basis. Volume 1, Criteria and schedule, Book 3

摘要

The goal of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) project is to provide an aboveground experimental capability for maintaining nuclear competence and weapons effects simulation, and to provide a facility that is capable of achieving fusion ignition utilizing solid-state lasers as the energy driver. In this facility, a large number of laser beams will be focused onto a small target located at the center of a spherical target chamber; the energy from the laser beams will be deposited in a few billionths of a second. The target will then implode, forcing atomic nuclei to sufficiently high temperatures and density necessary to achieve a miniature fusion reaction. The NIF project proposes to construct a facility to accomplish this goal. The NIF Conceptual Design Report (CDR) was prepared by a multi-laboratory team within the Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) Program to support the request for line-item funding for the NIF project. The Project is defined by a number of Work Break- down Structure (WBS) elements, which include: Project Office (WBS 1. 1); Conventional Facilities (WBS 1.2); Laser System (WBS 1.3); Target Area (WBS 1.4); Integrated Computer Control Systems (WBS 1.5); Optical Components (WBS 1.6); Start-up Activities (WBS 1.10); and ES&H/Supporting R&D (WBS 1.11). The first six elements of the WBS represent plant and capital equipment (PACE) costs and the last two represent other project costs (OPC). The NIF CDR consists of 10 chapters and six appendices. Appendix A, Volume 1, Book 3 contains the memorandum of agreement between LLNL, LANL, SNL, and LLE with regard to NIF activities. It also includes a conceptual design scope and plan.