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<p class="MsoNormal">In case no one wanted to get up at 7:00am to watch DOE administrators talk:<o:p></o:p></p>
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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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">2. 8% more power on the laser this time<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">3. x-ray tomography is used to find flaws in the capsules. Developing software to do the counting.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">4. They have ongoing efforts to study the fabrication systems and their components (done in Germany) to find idiosyncrasies of each.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">5. Laser technology improvements since NIF was built which are 20% more efficient.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">6. Target cost is from labor, and it takes 7 months each<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">7. 4% of DT is burned in a shot<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">8. Machine learning ties together radiation hydrodynamics and experimental data. (It sounded preliminary.)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">9. The (successful) capsule had more defects than previous experiments. However, previous experiments did show benefits from capsule quality.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">11. Anomalous laser directional control were problems in the summer runs. Fixed that.<o:p></o:p></p>
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