Welcome to the ninth
HAPL meeting
1,2,5
1. Feb 2001:
NRL
2. May 2001: NRL
3. Nov 2001: LLNL
4. Apr 2002:
5. Dec 2002: NRL
6. Apr 2003:
7
GA
Sandia
7. Sep 2003: Wisconsin
8. Feb 2004:
Georgia Tech
9. Jun 2004:
UCLA
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6
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Courtesy, Mark Tillack, UCSD
The High Average Power Laser (HAPL) Program:
An integrated program to develop the science and technology for
Laser Fusion Energy
6 Government labs, 9 Universities, 14 Industries
Target Fabrication
Target Injection
Target Design
(+NRL & LLE )
Lasers
DPPSL (LLNL)
KrF (NRL)
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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
NRL
LLNL
SNL
LANL
ORNL
PPPL
Universities
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2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
UCSD
Wisconsin
Georgia Tech
UCLA
U Rochester, LLE
PPPL
UC Santa Barbara
UNC
DELFT
Industry
Chamber/Materials
Final Optics
Government Labs
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2.
3.
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6.
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10.
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12.
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14.
General Atomics
Titan/PSD
Schafer Corp
SAIC
Commonwealth Technology
Coherent
Onyx
DEI
Mission Research Corp
Northrup
Ultramet, Inc
Plasma Processes, Inc
Optiswitch Technology
Plasma Processing, Inc
From FPA "Fusion Program Notes"- FESAC Panel Urges Balanced Inertial Fusion Energy Effort
A panel of the Department of Energy's Fusion Energy Sciences
Advisory Committee (FESAC), charged with reviewing its
Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE)program, has urged the
Department to carry out "a coordinated program with some
level of research on all the key components (targets, drivers
and chambers), always keeping the end product and its
explicit requirements in mind."
"In sum the IFE Panel is of the unanimous opinion that the IFE
program is technically excellent and that it contributes in ways
that are noteworthy to the ongoing missions of the DOE."
The full FESAC endorsed the Panel report at it meeting March 29, 2004
and transmitted it to DOE Office of Science Director Ray Orbach.
The Four Quadrants of Scientific Research
Neils Bohr
The HAPL
Louis
Pasteur
Program
Audubon
Society
Thomas
Edison
Yes
Goal is
understanding?
No
No
Yes
Goal is an application?
adapted from "Pasteur's Quadrant", Donald E. Stokes, Brookings Press, 1997
The Path to develop Laser Fusion Energy
Basic Science and Technology
Phase I:
1999- 2005
•Krypton fluoride laser
•Diode pumped solid state laser
•Target fabrication & injection
•Final optics
•Chambers materials/design
Develop Full Scale Components
Phase II
2006 - 2014
•Power plant laser beam line
•Target fab/injection facility
•Materials evaluations
•Power Plant design
Phase III
Engineering
Test Facility
operating  2020
Target Design & Physics
•2D/3D simulations
•1-30 kJ laser-target expts
Ignition Physics Validation
•MJ target implosions
•Calibrated 3D simulations
Engineering Test Facility
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Full size laser: 2-3 MJ, 60 laser lines
Optimize targets for high yield
Optimize chamber materials and components.
 300-700 MW net electricity
"Energy Options for the Future"
meeting hosted by
The US Naval Research Laboratory
11 & 12 March, 2004
Organized by John Sheffield and Steve Obenschain
Energy Projections
John Sheffield
(Senior Fellow, Joint Institute for Energy and Environment, U.T.)
Climate Change Technology
Program
David Conover
(Director, CCTP)
Coal & Gas
Rita Bajura
(Director, National Energy Technology Laboratory)
Oil
David Greene
(Lab. Fellow, National Transportation Research Center, ORNL)
Energy Efficiency
Marilyn Brown
(Director, Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Program, ORNL)
Renewables
Eldon Boes
(Director, Energy Analysis Office, NREL)
Nuclear
Kathryn McCarthy
(Director, Nuclear Science & Engineering, INEEL)
Power Industry Perspective
David Christian
(Senior Vice President, Dominion Resources Inc.)
Paths to Fusion Power
Stephen Dean
(President, Fusion Power Associates)
There are many possible future options for energy...
All will require significant R&D to establish viability.
FutureGen: 275 MW Clean Coal Prototype Plant:
Goal Gasification + CO2 sequestering
350 MW Solar Electric Plant
http://other.nrl.navy.mil/EnergyOptions/index.html
3.6 MW Wind Turbine
The Path to develop Laser Fusion Energy
Basic Science and Technology
Phase I:
1999- 2005
•Krypton fluoride laser
•Diode pumped solid state laser
•Target fabrication & injection
•Final optics
•Chambers materials/design
Develop Full Scale Components
Phase II
2006 - 2014
•Power plant laser beam line
•Target fab/injection facility
•Materials evaluations
•Power Plant design
Phase III
Engineering
Test Facility
operating  2020
Target Design & Physics
•2D/3D simulations
•1-30 kJ laser-target expts
Ignition Physics Validation
•MJ target implosions
•Calibrated 3D simulations
Engineering Test Facility




Full size laser: 2-3 MJ, 60 laser lines
Optimize targets for high yield
Optimize chamber materials and components.
 300-700 MW net electricity
Thanks Ralph for all your help!!!
HAPL meeting, Georgia Tech, Feb 5 & 6, 2004
Thanks, Steve!!
Why we are doing what we are doing...
Goals for Laser Development
KrF Laser (Electra-NRL)
DPSSL (Mercury-LLNL)
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Develop technologies that can simultaneously meet fusion energy
requirements for efficiency (> 6%), wavelength (351 or 248 nm)
repetition rate (5-10 Hz), and durability (>100,000,000 shots
continuous).
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Demonstrate required laser beam quality and pulse shaping
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Laser technologies employed must scale to reactor size laser modules
and project to have attractive costs for commercial fusion energy.