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Fabrication of a New Type of Double-Shell Target Having a PVA Inner Layer

Volume 45 · Number 2 · March 2004 · Pages 124-126
Technical Paper · Target Fabrication

D. A. Steinman, R. Wallace, S. Grant, M. L. Hoppe, J. N. Smith, Jr.

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The General Atomics Target Fabrication team was tasked in FY03, under its ICF Target Support contract, to make a new type of double-shell target. Its specifications called for the outer shell to have an inner lining of PVA (poly(vinyl alcohol)) that would keep the xenon gas fill from occupying the target wall. The inner shell consisted of a glass shell coated with 2000 Å of silver and filled with 9 atm of deuterium. Furthermore, the delivery deadline was less than seven weeks away. This paper describes the fielding of this double-shell target, made possible through the combined efforts of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and General Atomics target fabrication specialists.

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