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LIFE, short for Laser Inertial Fusion Energy, was a fusion energy effort run at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory between 2008 and 2013. LIFE aimed to develop the technologies necessary to convert the laser-driven inertial confinement fusion concept being developed in the National Ignition Facility (NIF) into a practical commercial power ...
The 10 beam LLNL Nova laser, shortly after its completion in 1984.In the late 1970s and early 1980s the laser energy per pulse delivered to a target using inertial confinement fusion went from a few joules to tens of kilojoules, requiring very large scientific devices for experimentation.
In 2008, LLNL began the Laser Inertial Fusion Energy program (LIFE), to explore ways to use NIF technologies as the basis for a commercial power plant design. The focus was on pure fusion devices, incorporating technologies that developed in parallel with NIF that would greatly improve the performance of the design. [119] In April 2014, LIFE ended.
It was designed and built at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), one of the primary research centers for mirror fusion devices. It cost 372 million dollars to construct, making it at the time the most expensive project in the lab's history. It opened on February 21, 1986 and was promptly shut down.
John Hopkin Nuckolls (born 17 November 1930) is an American physicist who worked his entire career at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is best known for the development of inertial confinement fusion, which is a major branch of fusion power research to this day. He was also the lab's director from 1988 until 1994, when he resigned ...
Nova was a high-power laser built at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California, United States, in 1984 which conducted advanced inertial confinement fusion (ICF) experiments until its dismantling in 1999. Nova was the first ICF experiment built with the intention of reaching "ignition", the condition where self heating of ...
In 1990, he became head of the Nova Laser program to demonstrate the use of a 1 to 2 megajoule laser for inertial fusion. After the ICF research at LLNL became declassified in 1993, Lindl wrote an overview article in Physics of Plasmas, [6] which then led to his book on inertial fusion in 1997. Lindl became the chief scientist at the National ...
"Summary Report of the 2nd Research Coordination Meeting on the Element of Inertial Fusion Energy Power Plants" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-10 (4.82 MiB) (November 2003) [dead link ] "Review of the Inertial Fusion Energy Program" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2006-09-23.