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Assessment of Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets (2013)
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PREPU UBLICATION C COPY—SUBJECT TO FURTH HER EDITORIA AL CORRECTIO ON  1  2  3  ASSESSM A MENT OF INERT F TIAL CO ONFINEM MENT F FUSION 4  TA ARGETSS 5    6    7    8  PREPUBLI ICATION C OPY—  9  SUBJECT T TO FURTHEER EDITOR IAL CORREECTION  10    11  EMBARGOED FOR RELEA ASE UNTILL   12  WE EDNESDAYY, FEBRUARRY 20, 2013 3 AT 11:00 0 A.M. EST  13    14    15    16  Pa on the Assessment of Inertial Conf anel finement Fusi Targets ion 17  Board on Ph hysics and Ast tronomy 18  Board on Energy and Environm d a mental System ms 19  Division on Engine eering and Phy hysical Scienc ces 20  21    22    23    24    25    26  THE NATIONAL ACADEMI E IES PRESS 27  Wash hington, D.C C. 28  ww ww.nap.edu 29       

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PREPUBLICATION COPY—SUBJECT TO FURTHER EDITORIAL CORRECTION  92  PANEL ON THE ASSESSMENT OF INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION TARGETS 93  94  JOHN AHEARNE, Chair, NAE, Sigma Xi, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 95  DOUGLAS EARDLEY, Vice Chair, University of California, Santa Barbara 96  ROBERT DYNES, University of California, Santa Barbara 97  DAVID HARDING, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 98  THOMAS MEHLHORN, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia 99  MERRI WOOD-SCHULTZ, Los Alamos, New Mexico 100  GEORGE ZIMMERMAN, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 101    102  Staff 103    104  GREG EYRING, Study Director 105  SARAH CASE, Study Director (until October 2011) 106  LANITA JONES, Administrative Coordinator 107  108  BOARD ON PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY 109    110  ADAM S. BURROWS, Princeton University, Chair 111  PHILIP H. BUCKSBAUM, Stanford University, Vice Chair 112  RICCARDO BETTI, University of Rochester 113  TODD DITMIRE, University of Texas, Austin 114  JAMES DRAKE, University of Maryland 115  JAMES EISENSTEIN, California Institute of Technology 116  DEBRA ELMEGREEN, Vassar College 117  PAUL FLEURY, Yale University 118  STUART J. FREEDMAN, University of California, Berkeley 119  LAURA H. GREENE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 120  MARTHA P. HAYNES, Cornell University 121  JOSEPH HEZIR, EOP Group, Inc. 122  MARK B. KETCHEN, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center 123  JOSEPH LYKKEN, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory 124  HOMER A. NEAL, University of Michigan 125  MONICA OLVERA DE LA CRUZ, Northwestern University 126  PAUL L. SCHECHTER, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 127  BORIS I SHRAIMAN, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics 128  MICHAEL S. TURNER, University of Chicago 129    130  Staff 131    132  DONALD C. SHAPERO, Director 133  JAMES C. LANCASTER, Associate Director 134  DAVID B. LANG, Program Officer 135  CARYN J. KNUTSEN, Associate Program Officer 136  TERI G. THOROWGOOD, Administrative Coordinator 137  BETH DOLAN, Financial Associate 138  139  140  141  iv   

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PREPUBLICATION COPY—SUBJECT TO FURTHER EDITORIAL CORRECTION  142  143  BOARD ON ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS 144    145  ANDREW BROWN, JR., Chair, NAE,1 Delphi Corporation, Troy, MI 146  WILLIAM BANHOLZER, NAE, The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan 147  MARILYN BROWN, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 148  WILLIAM CAVANAUGH, III, Progress Energy (retired), Raleigh, North Carolina 149  PAUL DeCOTIS, Long Island Power Authority, Albany, New York 150  CHRISTINE EHLIG-ECONOMIDES, NAE, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 151  SHERRI GOODMAN, CNA, Alexandria, Virginia 152  NARAIN HINGORANI, NAE, Independent Consultant, Los Altos Hills, California 153  ROBERT HUGGETT, Independent Consultant, Seaford, Virginia 154  DEBBIE NIEMEIER, University of California, Davis, California 155  DANIEL NOCERA, NAS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 156  MICHAEL OPPENHEIMER, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 157  DAN REICHER, Stanford University, Stanford, California 158  BERNARD ROBERTSON, NAE, Daimler-Chrysler (retired), Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 159  GARY ROGERS, FEV, Inc., Auburn Hills, Michigan 160  ALISON SILVERSTEIN, Consultant, Pflugerville, Texas 161  MARK THIEMENS, NAS, University of California, San Diego 162  RICHARD WHITE, Oppenheimer & Company, New York City 163    164    165  Staff 166    167  JAMES ZUCCHETTO, Director 168  DANA CAINES, Financial Associate 169  DAVID COOKE, Program Officer 170  ALAN CRANE, Senior Scientist 171  K. JOHN HOLMES, Associate Board Director 172  LANITA JONES, Administrative Coordinator 173  ALICE WILLIAMS, Senior Program Assistant 174  JONATHAN YANGER, Senior Project Assistant 175  v   

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PREPUBLICATION COPY—SUBJECT TO FURTHER EDITORIAL CORRECTION  176  vi