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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2013. Assessment of Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18288.
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Acronyms

AEC Atomic Energy Commission
ASC Advanced Simulation and Computing
CBET cross-beam energy transfer
CH carbon-hydrogen (plastic used as an ablator)
CTBT Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
DCA Detailed Configuration Analysis
DD direct drive
DOE U.S. Department of Energy
DPSSL diode-pumped, solid-state laser
DT deuterium-tritium
EP extended performance
EU European Union
FCT flux-corrected transport
FES Fusion Energy Sciences
FI fast ignition
FIRE Fast Ignition Realization Experiment
HAPL High Average Power Laser (Program)
HDC high-density carbon
Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2013. Assessment of Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18288.
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HIF heavy-ion fusion
HiPER High Power Laser Energy Research (facility)
IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency
ICF inertial confinement fusion
ID indirect drive
IFE inertial fusion energy
ILE Institute of Laser Engineering (Japan)
IR infrared
ISI induced spatial incoherence
LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory
LBNL Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
LEH laser entrance hole
LIFE Laser Inertial Fusion Energy
LLE Laboratory for Laser Energetics
LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
LMJ Laser Megajoule Facility (France)
LPI laser-plasma interactions
LTE local thermal equilibrium
MagLIF magnetized liner inertial fusion
MAGO Explosively Driven Magnetic Implosion (Russia)
MCF magnetic confinement fusion
MTF magnetized target fusion
NAS National Academy of Sciences
NIC National Ignition Campaign
NIF National Ignition Facility
NNSA National Nuclear Security Administration
NPT Nonproliferation Treaty
NRC National Research Council
NRL Naval Research Laboratory
ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory
PD polar drive
PEP project execution plan
RTL recyclable transmission line
Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Acronyms." National Research Council. 2013. Assessment of Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18288.
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SI shock ignition
SNL Sandia National Laboratories
SNM special nuclear materials
SRS stimulated Raman scattering
SSD smoothing by spectral dispersion
THD tritium-hydrogen-deuterium
TPD two-plasmon decay
VNIIEF All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics
YOC yield over clean
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In the fall of 2010, the Office of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Secretary for Science asked for a National Research Council (NRC) committee to investigate the prospects for generating power using inertial confinement fusion (ICF) concepts, acknowledging that a key test of viability for this concept—ignition —could be demonstrated at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in the relatively near term. The committee was asked to provide an unclassified report. However, DOE indicated that to fully assess this topic, the committee's deliberations would have to be informed by the results of some classified experiments and information, particularly in the area of ICF targets and nonproliferation. Thus, the Panel on the Assessment of Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets ("the panel") was assembled, composed of experts able to access the needed information. The panel was charged with advising the Committee on the Prospects for Inertial Confinement Fusion Energy Systems on these issues, both by internal discussion and by this unclassified report.

A Panel on Fusion Target Physics ("the panel") will serve as a technical resource to the Committee on Inertial Confinement Energy Systems ("the Committee") and will prepare a report that describes the R&D challenges to providing suitable targets, on the basis of parameters established and provided to the Panel by the Committee. The Panel on Fusion Target Physics will prepare a report that will assess the current performance of fusion targets associated with various ICF concepts in order to understand:

1. The spectrum output; 2. The illumination geometry; 3. The high-gain geometry; and 4. The robustness of the target design. The panel addressed the potential impacts of the use and development of current concepts for Inertial Fusion Energy on the proliferation of nuclear weapons information and technology, as appropriate. The Panel examined technology options, but does not provide recommendations specific to any currently operating or proposed ICF facility.

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