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2 Relevance of the National Ignition Facility to Science Based Stockpile Stewardship
2 Relevance of the National Ignition Facility to Science Based Stockpile Stewardship
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Maintaining core intellectual and technical competencies requires a challenging theoretical, computational, and experimental program in the areas of implosion hydrodynamics, instabilities and mix, radiation transport, and theormonuclear burn. In the committee's judgment, ICE provides a unique synthesis of these relevant physics areas, and the NIF would provide unique capabilities for basic experiments in atomic physics, radiation flows, plasma physics, and hydrodynamics.
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The complex physics involved in TCF and SBSS studies implies a corresponding complexity in the radiation-hydrodynamics codes used; these codes push the state of the art in many ways, including differencing methods, parallel computation techniques, and physics modules. Even in the absence of ignition, the NIF has key roles to play in the maturation, maintenance, and advanced development of these codes, which have a use in other DOE technical and scientific programs.
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IGNITION In terrestrial environments to date, significant thermonuclear burn in a dense plasma occurs only in weapons. Achieving ignition on the NIF would thus open a new realm of physical study relevant to weapons science, to basic research, and to energy production.
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