The liquid-metal-wall chamber has emerged as an attractive reactor concept for inertial fusion energy conversion. The principal feature of this concept is a thick, free-flowing blanket of liquid metal used to protect the structure of the reactor. The development and design of liquid-metal-wall charters over the past decade provides a basis for formulating a conceptual design strategy for such chapters. Both the attractive and unattractive fea tures of a DV chanter are enumerated, and a design strategy is fornulated which accomo dates the engineering constraints while crinimizing the liquid-aetal flow rate. ! Work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Liveraore i National Laboratory under contract no. V-7405-EXG-48. Monsler 2 N 5/1