{"id":4689,"date":"2010-01-30T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=4689"},"modified":"2010-01-30T03:00:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T08:00:08","slug":"is-it-getting-crowded-in-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4689","title":{"rendered":"Is it Getting Crowded in Here?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/publicaffairs.llnl.gov\/news\/news_releases\/2010\/NR-10-01-06.html\">Initial NIF experiments meet requirements for fusion ignition<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The experiments, described in an article in today\u2019s edition of <em>Science Express<\/em>, the online version of the journal <em>Science<\/em>, resulted in highly symmetrical compression of simulated fuel capsules \u2013 a requirement for NIF to achieve its goal of fusion ignition and energy gain when ignition experiments begin later this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The test shots proved NIF\u2019s ability to deliver sufficient energy to the hohlraum to reach the radiation temperatures \u2013 more than 3 million degrees Centigrade \u2013 needed to create the intense bath of X-rays that compress the fuel capsule. When NIF scientists extrapolate the results of the initial experiments to higher-energy shots on full-sized hohlraums, \u201cwe feel we will be able to create the necessary hohlraum conditions to drive an implosion to ignition,\u201d said Jeff Atherton, director of NIF experiments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Initial NIF experiments meet requirements for fusion ignition The experiments, described in an article in today\u2019s edition of Science Express, the online version of the journal Science, resulted in highly symmetrical compression of simulated fuel capsules \u2013 a requirement for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/4689\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}