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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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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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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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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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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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