Review of the Department of Energy's Inertial Confinement Fusion Program: The National Ignition Facility (1997)
Chapter: Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations
Appendix D
Acronyms and Abbreviations
AGEX
Above-ground experimentation
ASCI
Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative
CD-1, etc.
Critical Decision 1, etc.
DOD
Department of Defense
DOE
Department of Energy
DP
Defense Programs (DOE)
DT
Deuterium-tritium
HEP
Hydrodynamic equivalent physics
HLP
Hohlraum laser physics
ICE
Independent cost estimate
ICF
Inertial confinement fusion
ICFAC
Inertial Confinement Fusion Advisory Committee
IFE
Inertial fusion energy
ISI
Induced spatial incoherence
KDP
Potassium dihydrogen phosphate
KPP
Kinoform phase plate
LANL
Los Alamos National Laboratory
LLE
Laboratory for Laser Energetics (University of Rochester)
LLNL
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
MO
Master oscillator
NIF
National Ignition Facility
NIKE
Not an acronym; name of existing laser facility at Naval Research Laboratory
NOVA
Not an acronym; name of existing laser facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
NRC
National Research Council
NRL
Naval Research Laboratory
NTC
NOVA Technical Contract
OMEGA
Not an acronym; name of existing laser facility at University of Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics
RPPs
Random phase plates
SBS
Stimulated Brillouin Scattering
SBSS
Science Based Stockpile Stewardship
SNL
Sandia National Laboratories
SRS
Stimulated Raman scattering
SSD
Smoothing by spectral dispersion
TEC
Total estimated cost
TPC
Total project cost
