That's why I asked. I guess I'll assume DT means both deuterium and tritium, not just deuterium. If you were going to track fuel use, you'd track the rarer part more closely, right?
On 12/13/22 09:22, Frank Wimberly wrote:
DT = deuterium? --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Tue, Dec 13, 2022, 10:21 AM glen <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Awesome. Thanks. I'm still trying to catch up with the QC Wormhole kerfuffle. Who knew Quanta was so click baity? What is "DT"? On 12/13/22 09:02, Marcus Daniels wrote: > In case no one wanted to get up at 7:00am to watch DOE administrators talk: > > > 1. Controlling the laser in space and time was important for maintaining symmetry. Timing precision of 25e-12 secs and laser spatial precision of 5e-12 meter were needed. This was thought to be the main explanation for the achievement. > > 2. 8% more power on the laser this time > > 3. x-ray tomography is used to find flaws in the capsules. Developing software to do the counting. > > 4. They have ongoing efforts to study the fabrication systems and their components (done in Germany) to find idiosyncrasies of each. > > 5. Laser technology improvements since NIF was built which are 20% more efficient. > > 6. Target cost is from labor, and it takes 7 months each > > 7. 4% of DT is burned in a shot > > 8. Machine learning ties together radiation hydrodynamics and experimental data. (It sounded preliminary.) > > 9. The (successful) capsule had more defects than previous experiments. However, previous experiments did show benefits from capsule quality. > > 10. 15% of experiments are indirect drive of this kind, 15% of experiments are other approaches to ignition. The rest are weapons and materials characterization. > > 11. Anomalous laser directional control were problems in the summer runs. Fixed that.
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