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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists, engineers, and researchers won
five R&D-100 Awards, considered the "Oscars of Innovation",
among the top 100 industrial innovations worldwide.
The technologies awarded were for Snowflake: A Power Diverter for Nuclear
Fusion Reactors. The Snowflake Diverter will reduce to heat exhaust power
densities in commercial fusion reactors to technologically acceptable levels.
So we think that uh...
this technology will solve
one on the critical problems for controled fusion
and we are very happy that it was recognized by
this award.
High-Velocity Laser-Accelerated Deposition.
This process uses the world's most powerful
and highest repetition-rate production lasers
for localized explosive bonding,
thus producing a very broad range of advanced high-temperature,
and corrosion-resistant coatings with extreme interfacial bond strength.
In this new invention: High Velocity Laser Accelerated Deposition,
we're capable of coating materials with explosively bonded interfaces that provide
unparalleled bond strength. Frequently, when we protect surfaces with coatings, the primary failure
is at the interface between the coating and the substrate. So by having explosively
bonded interfaces that we produce, in this case with the laser, we were able to mitigate corrosion damage.
Plastic Scintillators for Neutron and Gamma Discrimination.
The first plastic materials to efficiently distinguish neutrons from
gamma rays
have been developed for identifying radionuclides for non-proliferation,
homeland security, and other physics applications. Our team received, uh...
an R&D-100 Award for the development of new plastic
scintillators
uh... which allow uh... neutron detection in the presence of gamma
radiation in the ground.
These materials are important for the purposes of national
security because they allow detection of radioactive
materials, such as, uh... uranium and uh... plutonium. And LEOPARD, which stands for
Laser Energy Optimization
By Precision Adjustments to the Radiant Distribution.
The LEOPARD system is designed to dramatically improve the performance
and operational reliability of laser systems,
capable of igniting the fuel used in fusion-based power plants.
This is a system
of special light modulators that you can think of the selectively transparent
windows
that can control the shape of a laser beam.
I have here one sub-component
of the LEOPARD system of which there are 48 of these.
These are able to take an ordinary image, in this case blue light,
and imprint it on a coherent laser beam.
This allows us to get arbitrarily smooth shapes, which allows us to optimize the NIF
laser system, so that we can extract
maximum energy while at the same time saving significant
overhead, in terms of money that might be attributed to damage.
The Lab also received recognition for work on the Multiplexed Photonic Doppler
Velocimeter
or MPDV;
which measures up to 32 discrete surface velocities
onto a single digitizer by multiplexing signals
and frequency and time.