Driver Lasers, heavy ions, pulsed power, other approaches. Requires high repetition rates and heat handling capabilities. Ignition

• Driver

• Lasers, heavy ions, pulsed power, other approaches, --- .
• Requires high repetition rates and heat handling capabilities.

• Ignition

• Hot spot versus fast ignition.
• Indirect versus direct drive.
• Understand underlying high energy density (HED) physical processes.

Main Committee

• Main Committee

• Prepare Interim and Final Reports.
• Twenty-two technical experts from many of the critical science and engineering sub-fields.
• A twenty-one-month study is envisioned.
• Provide parameters to the Target Physics Panel.

• Target Physics Panel

• Seven technical experts in target physics.
• Panel Chair provides periodic progress reports to the Main Committee.
• Eighteen-month study.
• Access to classified information.

• The technical expertise of the committee members covers a broad range of sub-fields:

• Plasma physics
• Fusion physics & engineering
• Fusion (inertial and magnetic)
• Radiation physics
• Materials science & engineering
• Nuclear engineering
• Mechanical engineering
• Laser systems
• Beam systems
• Heat transfer

• Ronald C. Davidson, Co-Chair, Princeton University

• Gerald L. Kulcinski,  Co-Chair, University of Wisconsin, Madison

• Charles Baker, University of California, San Diego [Retired]

• Roger Bangerter, E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory [Retired]

• Riccardo Betti, University of Rochester

• Jan Beyea, Consulting in the Public Interest

• Robert L. Byer, Stanford University

• Franklin Chang-Diaz, Ad Astra Rocket Company

• Steven C. Cowley, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

• Richard L. Garwin, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

• David Hammer, Cornell University

• Joseph S. Hezir, EOP Group, Inc.

• Kathyrn McCarthy, Idaho National Laboratory

• Lawrence T. Papay, PQR, LLC

• Ken Schultz, General Atomics [Retired]

• Andrew M. Sessler, E. O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

• John Sheffield, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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• Thomas A. Tombrello, Jr, California Institute of Technology

• Dennis G. Whyte, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Jonathan S. Wurtele, University of California, Berkeley

• Rosa Yang, Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.

• Consultant:

• Malcolm McGeoch, Consultant, PLEX, LLC

• National Research Council Staff

• David Lang, Study Director and Program Officer (BPA)

• Donald Shapero, Director, Board on Physics and Astronomy (BPA)

• James Zucchetto, Director, Board on Energy and Environmental Systems (BEES)

• Greg Eyring, Senior Program Officer (DEPS)

• Jonathan Yanger, Senior Project Assistant (BEES)

• Teri Thorowgood, Administrative Coordinator (BPA)

The technical expertise on the Target Physics Panel covers the following sub-fields:

• The technical expertise on the Target Physics Panel covers the following sub-fields:

• Target physics
• Plasma physics
• Inertial confinement fusion physics
• Materials science & chemical engineering
• Computational physics
• Analytical calculations

John Ahearne, Chair, Sigma Xi

• John Ahearne, Chair, Sigma Xi

• Robert Dynes, University of California, San Diego

• Douglas Eardley, University of California, Santa Barbara

• David Harding, University of Rochester

• Thomas Melhorne, Naval Research Laboratory

• Merri Wood-Schultz, Los Alamos, NM

• George Zimmerman, Lafayette, CA

• National Research Council Staff

• Sarah Case, Senior Program Officer*

• Greg Eyring, Senior Program Officer

• LaNita Jones, Administrative Coordinator

• * Until October 2011

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The Committee will prepare a Report that:

• The Committee will prepare a Report that:

• Assesses the prospects for generating power using Inertial Confinement Fusion;
• Identifies the scientific and engineering challenges, cost targets, and R&D objectives associated with developing an Inertial Fusion Energy demonstration plant; and
• Advises the U.S. Department of Energy on the preparation of an R&D roadmap aimed at developing the conceptual design of an Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) demonstration plant.

• The Committee will also prepare an interim report giving DOE guidance to assist the department in FY 2013 IFE program planning.

Target Physics Panel

• Target Physics Panel

• Requires access to classified target physics information.
• Will inform the Main Committee on the relevant target physics issues.
• The major task activity for the Target Physics Panel is to:
• “Assess the current performance of various fusion target technologies. Describe the R&D challenges to providing suitable targets on the basis of parameters established and provided by the Committee.”

• Five full meetings have been completed (more detail on following slides)

• 1st meeting - Washington, DC - December 16-17, 2010
• 2nd meeting - San Ramon, CA - January 29-31, 2011
• 3rd meeting - Albuquerque, NM – March 30-April 1
• 4th meeting – Rochester, NY – June 15-17
• 5th meeting – Washington, DC – October 31-November 2

• One more fact-finding and deliberative meeting

• 6th meeting – Location and Dates TBD

• Mike Campbell, Energy Systems Logos Technologies

• Chris Deeney, NNSA

• Harold Forsen, Bechtel, retired

• Robert Goldston, Princeton

• Rulon Linford

• Ed Synakowksi, DOE

• Steve Koonin, DOE

• Bill Brinkman, DOE

• Donald Cook, NNSA

• Steve Fetter, OSTP

Ed Moses, Michael Dunne, Andy Bayramian, Bob Deri, Jeff Latkowski, Tom Anklam, LLNL

• Ed Moses, Michael Dunne, Andy Bayramian, Bob Deri, Jeff Latkowski, Tom Anklam, LLNL

• John Perkins, LLNL

• Wayne Meier, LLNL

• Robert McCrory, Stanley Skupsky, Jonathan Zuegel, LLE

• John Sethian, Stephen Obenschain, NRL

• Grant Logan, LBNL

• Michael Cuneo, Mark Herrmann, SNL

• Juan Fernández, LANL

• Dan Goodin, General Atomics

• Stephen Bodner

• Visit to LLNL

• Ed Moses, Michael Dunne, Tom Anklam, Robin Miles, John Lindl

• Visit to LBNL

• Paul Alivisatos, Grant Logan, Joe Kwan, Peter Seidl, Alex Friedman, John Barnard

• John Lindl, LLNL

• Chris Deeney, NNSA

• Tom Anklam, LLNL

• Richard Freeman, Ohio State University

• Glen Wurden, LANL

• Irv Lindemuth, University of Nevada at Reno

• Steve Zinkle, ORNL

• Elon Musk, SpaceX, Tesla Motors, & Solar City

• Visit to SNL

• Steve Rottler, Mike Cuneo, William Styger

• John Collier, UK Science and Technology Facilities Council

• Hiroshi Azechi, Institute of Laser Engineering, Osaka University

• John Sethian, Naval Research Laboratory

• Philip M. Huyck, Encite, LLC

• Zhang Jie, President, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

• Visit to LLE

• Robert McCrory, Goncharov, Zuegel, Theobald, Soures, Oliver, Kessler

• Boris Sharkov, FAIR GmbH

• Abbas Nikroo, General Atomics

• Dick Meserve, Carnegie Institute for Science

• Brad Merrill, Idaho National Laboratory

• Visit to NRL

• Stephen Obenschain, Victor Serlin, John Sethian, Yefim Aglitskiy, Max Karasik, Jim Weaver, David Kehne, Steve Terrel, Frank Hegeler, Matt Myers, Matt Wolford

• 1/21/2011. Sent request for 2-pagers on IFE topical areas to all speakers from second committee meeting. 22 excellent, succinct papers received.

• 2/19/2011. Sent expansive list of questions to the second meeting’s speakers. 146 pages of detailed, thoughtful responses received.

• Public Comment Sessions at all in-person meetings.

• Documents collected via other external submissions.

• Over 300 submissions received in toto!

• All documents received by the committee are available via The National Academies’ Public Access Records Office.

• 5 Meetings: Washington, DC; Livermore, CA; Albuquerque, NM; Rochester, NY; Washington, DC. Agendas available at http://tinyurl.com/d3ggrv6 .

• Report is now in classification review prior to entering the NRC review process.

• An unclassified version of the Panel Report will be included as an Appendix to the Committee Report; a classified annex to the unclassified version will be published separately.

• Submitted Interim Report to NRC for review in mid-August.

• 6th meeting mid/late-February. Some data-gathering and discussion of the final report.

• Final Report completed by Committee and submitted to NRC for review- Spring, 2012.

• Final Report made available to DOE and public in Summer, 2012.

• Questions?

America's Energy Future: Technology and Transformation (BEES, 2009).

• America's Energy Future: Technology and Transformation (BEES, 2009).

• Review of DOE's Nuclear Energy Research and Development Program (BEES, 2008).

• Plasma Science: Advancing Knowledge in the National Interest (BPA, 2007).

• Frontiers of High Energy Density Physics: The X-Games of Contemporary Science (BPA, 2003).

• An Assessment of DOE’s Office of Fusion Energy Sciences Program (BPA, 2001).

• Review of the Department of Energy's Inertial Confinement Fusion Program: The National Ignition Facility (CPSMA, 1997).