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Assessment of Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets PREPUBLICATION COPY—SUBJECT TO FURTHER EDITORIAL CORRECTION 92 PANEL ON THE ASSESSMENT OF INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION TARGETS 93 94 JOHN AHEARNE, Chair, NAE, Sigma Xi, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 95 DOUGLAS EARDLEY, Vice Chair, University of California, Santa Barbara 96 ROBERT DYNES, University of California, Santa Barbara 97 DAVID HARDING, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 98 THOMAS MEHLHORN, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia 99 MERRI WOOD-SCHULTZ, Los Alamos, New Mexico 100 GEORGE ZIMMERMAN, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 101 102 Staff 103 104 GREG EYRING, Study Director 105 SARAH CASE, Study Director (until October 2011) 106 LANITA JONES, Administrative Coordinator 107 108 BOARD ON PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY 109 110 ADAM S. BURROWS, Princeton University, Chair 111 PHILIP H. BUCKSBAUM, Stanford University, Vice Chair 112 RICCARDO BETTI, University of Rochester 113 TODD DITMIRE, University of Texas, Austin 114 JAMES DRAKE, University of Maryland 115 JAMES EISENSTEIN, California Institute of Technology 116 DEBRA ELMEGREEN, Vassar College 117 PAUL FLEURY, Yale University 118 STUART J. FREEDMAN, University of California, Berkeley 119 LAURA H. GREENE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 120 MARTHA P. HAYNES, Cornell University 121 JOSEPH HEZIR, EOP Group, Inc. 122 MARK B. KETCHEN, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center 123 JOSEPH LYKKEN, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory 124 HOMER A. NEAL, University of Michigan 125 MONICA OLVERA DE LA CRUZ, Northwestern University 126 PAUL L. SCHECHTER, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 127 BORIS I SHRAIMAN, Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics 128 MICHAEL S. TURNER, University of Chicago 129 130 Staff 131 132 DONALD C. SHAPERO, Director 133 JAMES C. LANCASTER, Associate Director 134 DAVID B. 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Assessment of Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets PREPUBLICATION COPY—SUBJECT TO FURTHER EDITORIAL CORRECTION 142 143 BOARD ON ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS 144 145 ANDREW BROWN, JR., Chair, NAE,1 Delphi Corporation, Troy, MI 146 WILLIAM BANHOLZER, NAE, The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, Michigan 147 MARILYN BROWN, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 148 WILLIAM CAVANAUGH, III, Progress Energy (retired), Raleigh, North Carolina 149 PAUL DeCOTIS, Long Island Power Authority, Albany, New York 150 CHRISTINE EHLIG-ECONOMIDES, NAE, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 151 SHERRI GOODMAN, CNA, Alexandria, Virginia 152 NARAIN HINGORANI, NAE, Independent Consultant, Los Altos Hills, California 153 ROBERT HUGGETT, Independent Consultant, Seaford, Virginia 154 DEBBIE NIEMEIER, University of California, Davis, California 155 DANIEL NOCERA, NAS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge 156 MICHAEL OPPENHEIMER, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 157 DAN REICHER, Stanford University, Stanford, California 158 BERNARD ROBERTSON, NAE, Daimler-Chrysler (retired), Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 159 GARY ROGERS, FEV, Inc., Auburn Hills, Michigan