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Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 1997. Review of the Department of Energy's Inertial Confinement Fusion Program: The National Ignition Facility. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5730.
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Appendix D
Acronyms and Abbreviations


AGEX

Above-ground experimentation

ASCI

Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative


CD-1, etc.

Critical Decision 1, etc.


DOD

Department of Defense

DOE

Department of Energy

DP

Defense Programs (DOE)

DT

Deuterium-tritium


HEP

Hydrodynamic equivalent physics

HLP

Hohlraum laser physics


ICE

Independent cost estimate

ICF

Inertial confinement fusion

ICFAC

Inertial Confinement Fusion Advisory Committee

IFE

Inertial fusion energy

ISI

Induced spatial incoherence


KDP

Potassium dihydrogen phosphate

KPP

Kinoform phase plate


LANL

Los Alamos National Laboratory

LLE

Laboratory for Laser Energetics (University of Rochester)

LLNL

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory


MO

Master oscillator


NIF

National Ignition Facility

NIKE

Not an acronym; name of existing laser facility at Naval Research Laboratory

NOVA

Not an acronym; name of existing laser facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

NRC

National Research Council

NRL

Naval Research Laboratory

NTC

NOVA Technical Contract


OMEGA

Not an acronym; name of existing laser facility at University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics


RPPs

Random phase plates


SBS

Stimulated Brillouin Scattering

SBSS

Science Based Stockpile Stewardship

SNL

Sandia National Laboratories

SRS

Stimulated Raman scattering

SSD

Smoothing by spectral dispersion


TEC

Total estimated cost

TPC

Total project cost

Suggested Citation:"Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 1997. Review of the Department of Energy's Inertial Confinement Fusion Program: The National Ignition Facility. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/5730.
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