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Appendix B: Description of ICF Program and Selected Other Major SBSS Facilities
Pages 48-50

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... In the absence of nuclear testing, this program will require an improved understanding of nuclear weapon behavior in the areas of performance, safety, and reliability. Development of this understanding will increasingly depend on computer simulations and analyses benchmarked against past data and new, more comprehensive information obtained from carefully designed laboratory experiments.
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... gas laser at NEIL for studying direct-drive inertial fusion issues and other related phenomena. NOVA is a 10-beam (~40-k~ glass laser facility at LLNL for conducting indirect drive inertial fusion experiments and weapons-related high-energy-density science experiments.
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... Hydrodynamics Pulsed High-Energy Radiographic Machine Emitting X-Rays (PHERMEX) Flash X-Ray (FXR - $81 million Materials Weapon Engineering Tritium Facility (WETF)
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