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NIF special equipment construction health and safety plan
The purpose of this plan is to identify how the construction and deployment activities of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) Special Equipment (SE) will be safely executed. This plan includes an identification of (1) the safety-related responsibilities of the SE people and their interaction with other organizations involved; (2) safety related requirements, policies, and documentation; (3) a list of the potential hazards unique to SE systems and the mechanisms that will be implemented to control them to acceptable levels; (4) a summary of Environmental Safety and Health (ES&H) training requirements; and (5) requirements of contractor safety plans that will be developed and used by all SE contractors participating in site activities. This plan is a subsidiary document to the NIF Construction Safety Program (CSP) and is intended to compliment the requirements stated therein with additional details specific to the safety needs of the SE construction-related activities. If a conflict arises between these two documents, the CSP will supersede. It is important to note that this plan does not list all of the potential hazards and their controls because the design and safety analysis process is still ongoing. Additional safety issues win be addressed in the Final Safety Analysis Report, Operational Safety Procedures (OSPs), and other plans and procedures as described in Section 3.0 of this plan
The national ignition facility: Path to ignition in the laboratory
The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is a 192-beam laser
facility presently under construction at LLNL. When completed, NIF will be a
1.8-MJ, 500-TW ultraviolet laser system. Its missions are to obtain fusion
ignition and to perform high energy density experiments in support of the
U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. Four of the NIF beams have been commissioned
to demonstrate laser performance and to commission the target area including
target and beam alignment and laser timing. During this time, NIF
demonstrated on a single-beam basis that it will meet its performance goals
and demonstrated its precision and flexibility for pulse shaping, pointing,
timing and beam conditioning. It also performed four important experiments
for Inertial Confinement Fusion and High Energy Density Science. Presently,
the project is installing production hardware to complete the project in
2009 with the goal to begin ignition experiments in 2010. An integrated plan
has been developed including the NIF operations, user equipment such as
diagnostics and cryogenic target capability, and experiments and
calculations to meet this goal. This talk will provide NIF status, the plan
to complete NIF, and the path to ignition