The role of the National Ignition Facility in energy production from inertial fusion

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1752, 1999, Pages 533-554

  Kilkenny, Joseph D ^a   Campbell, E Michael ^a   Lindl, John D ^a   Logan, Grant B ^a   Meier, Wayne R ^a   Perkins, L John ^a   Paisner, Jeffrey A ^a   Key, Michael H ^a   Powell, Howard T ^a   McCrory, Robert L ^b   Seka, Wolf ^b  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ignition (lasers); Inertial fusion energy; Laser fusion; National Ignition Facility; Nova; Thermonuclear gain

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346969545     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1999.0340     Document Type: Article

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