Missions and Design Requirements for a Laboratory Microfusion Facility (LMF)

Abstract

Serious planning for the Laboratory Microfusion Facility (LMF), in which the ICF program plans to achieve high gain, has begun. An inter organization DOE group has studied the design requirements for such a facility. That group concluded that the required missions of the LMF include: (1) obtain high gain (10-100), (2) conduct weapons physics (yields of 100-1000 MJ), (3) conduct weapon effects (same yields), and (4) assess ICF's potential for electric power. This paper describes the design implications of meeting these requirements.