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Completing the Viability Demonstration of Direct-Drive IFE Target Engagement and Assessing Scalability to a Full-Scale Power Plant by Carlson, L.C., Tillack, M.S., Stromsoe, J., Alexander, N.B., Flint, G.W., Goodin, D.T., Petzoldt, R.W.

“…A significant challenge for the successful implosion of direct-drive inertial fusion energy targets is the repeated alignment of multiple laser beams on moving…”
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IFE target fabrication and injection—achieving “believability” by Schultz, K.R, Goodin, D.T, Nobile, A

“…At the heart of an inertial fusion energy (IFE) power plant is a target that has been compressed and heated to fusion conditions by the incident driver energy…”
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The production and delivery of inertial fusion energy power plant fuel: The cryogenic target by Bozek, A.S., Alexander, N.B., Bittner, D., Carlson, L., Drake, T.J., Flint, G.W., Frey, D.T., Goodin, D.T., Grant, S., Hund, J.F., Kilkenny, J.D., Petzoldt, R.W., Schroen, D.G., Stemke, R.W., Streit, J.E., Vermillion, B.A.

“…The High Average Power Laser (HAPL) Program, directed by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC, is pursuing an all-systems approach to inertial…”
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Developing the basis for target injection and tracking in inertial fusion energy power plants by Goodin, D.T, Gibson, C.R, Petzoldt, R.W, Siegel, N.P, Thompson, L, Nobile, A, Besenbruch, G.E, Schultz, K.R

“…Fueling of a commercial Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) power plant consists of supplying about 500,000 fusion targets each day. The most challenging type of…”
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A Method for Characterizing and Improving the Damage Resistance of the Outer Metallic Coatings on Inertial Fusion Energy Targets by Carlson, L.J., Goodin, D.T., Tillack, M.S.

“…A very smooth highly reflective coating on inertial fusion energy (IFE) targets is essential for direct-drive ignition. A gold/palladium (Au/Pd) alloy is…”
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Modeling results for mass production layering in a fluidized bed by Boehm, K.J., Raffray, A.R., Alexander, N.B., Goodin, D.T.

“…A fluidized bed has been proposed as a layering device for the mass production of inertial fusion energy fuel pellets. During this layering process, the frozen…”
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Progress in heavy ion-driven target fabrication and injection by Goodin, D.T., Nobile, A., Alexander, N.B., Gallix, R., Maxwell, J.L., Petzoldt, R.W., Rickman, W.S., Valmianski, E.I.

“…The target for an Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) power plant is compressed and heated to fusion conditions by the driver beams. The “Target Fabrication Facility”…”
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Target steering and electrostatic acceleration for IFE by Petzoldt, R.W., Goodin, D.T., Valmianski, E., Carlson, L.C., Stromsoe, J.D., Hares, J.

“…We have demonstrated that in-flight electrostatic steering can substantially improve target placement accuracy. We optically track the motion of a charged…”
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Numerical analysis of using a fluidized bed as a prototypic mass production device for IFE target layering by Boehm, K.-J., Raffray, A.R., Alexander, N.B., Frey, D.T., Goodin, D.T.

“…A fluidized bed has been identified as a very promising method for mass production of Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) targets. While large beds could be filled…”
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Simulation of afterglow plasma evolution in an inertial fusion energy chamber by Frolov, B.K., Pigarov, A.Yu, Krasheninnikov, S.I., Petzoldt, R.W., Goodin, D.T.

“…The temporal evolution of plasma and gas parameters during the afterglow phase of cyclic operation of an inertial fusion-energy reactor chamber is simulated…”
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Completing the viability demonstration of direct-drive inertial fusion energy target engagement by Carlson, L.C., Tillack, M.S., Stromsoe, J., Alexander, N.B., Flint, G.W., Goodin, D.T.

“…A significant challenge for the successful implosion of direct-drive inertial fusion energy (IFE) targets is the repeated alignment of multiple laser beams on…”
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Addressing the issues of target fabrication and injection for inertial fusion energy by Goodin, D.T., Nobile, A., Hoffer, J., Nikroo, A., Besenbruch, G.E., Brown, L.C., Maxwell, J.L., Meier, W.R., Norimatsu, T., Pulsifer, J., Rickman, W.S., Steckle, W., Stephens, E.H., Tillack, M.

“…Addressing the issues associated with target fabrication and injection is a major part of an international program to establish the feasibility of inertial…”
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Progress toward heavy-ion IFE by Meier, W.R, Logan, B.G, Waldron, W.L, Sabbi, G.-L, Callahan, D.A, Peterson, P.F, Goodin, D.T

“…Successful development of heavy-ion fusion (HIF) will require scientific and technology advances in areas of targets, drivers and chambers. Design work on…”
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Status of the design of the tritium handling systems for the OMEGA Cryogenic Target System by Nobile, A., Nasise, J.E., Schmierer, E.N., Walthers, C.R., Alexander, N.B., Besenbruch, G.E., Goodin, D.T., Harding, D., Lund, L.

“…The OMEGA Laser Facility at the University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics (UR/LLE) will begin laser illumination campaigns on cryogenic DT ICF…”
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A target fabrication and injection facility for laser-IFE by Tillack, M.S., Goodin, D.T., Alexander, N.B., Petzoldt, R.W., Raffray, A.R., Schroen, D., Sethian, J.D., Streit, J.E.

“…We have defined the characteristics of a target injection and tracking facility to validate the science and technology of full-scale components for a laser…”
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The design of the OMEGA cryogenic target system by Goodin, D.T., Alexander, N.B., Anteby, I., Baugh, W.A., Besenbruch, G.E., Boline, K.K., Brown, L.C., Egli, W., Follin, J.F., Gibson, C.R., Hoffmann, E.H., Lee, W., Lund, L., Nasise, J.E., Nobile, A., Schultz, K.R., Stemke, R.

“…General Atomics is designing and building the OMEGA Cryogenic Target System (Fig. 1) for the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics. The…”
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