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DOE/NNSA Releases Two Important Reports and Status and Plans for Inertial Fusion

June 11, 2016

The US Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has released two important reports describing the current status and plans for the future for its inertial confinement fusion and high yield program. The reports can be accessed from the links below and are also available via the FIRE website; http://www.firefusionpower.org

NNSA OFFICE OF INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION has released the first-ever comprehensive National Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) Program Framework. (May 16, 2016):
This Framework was developed over 20 months using input from hundreds of technical staff, program managers, and academic partners from over a dozen institutions with direct interest in the ICF and related high energy density (HED) aspects of National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Stockpile Stewardship Program (SSP). The report includes: Ten-Year High Energy-Density Science Strategic Plan, Integrated Experimental Campaigns, Priority Research Directions and National Diagnostics Plan. The document will be revised annually with each Framework element updated as needed.
2015 Review of the DOE Inertial Confinement Fusion and High Energy Density Science Portfolio, Volumes I and II (updated) (May 2016):
In September 2012, at the conclusion of the National Ignition Campaign (NIC), the NNSA committed itself to conducting a review of the progress toward ignition three years later. NNSA called upon twenty subject matter experts to independently review and comprehensively assess the progress and program plans for the Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) and High Energy Density (HED) science portfolio within the Stockpile Stewardship Program (SSP).