  Resistive diffusion is typically regarded to be negligible in magnetized ICF
experiments, with magnetic flux effectively compressed during the implosion. In
this work the Richtmyer Meshkov instability at the ice-ablator interface is
taken as an example for investigating resistive effects. For a high temperature
(approximately 100eV) interface with magnetic field applied perpendicular to
shock propagation, perturbation growth is suppressed by magnetic tension.
However, for lower temperature interfaces the resistive diffusion prevents
substantial magnetic field twisting at small scales. ICF implosion simulations
are then used to assess magnetic diffusivity at different interfaces; the
ice-ablator interface is found to be too resistive for the magnetic fields to
enhance stability. For Rayleigh-Taylor growth at the hot-spot edge, on the
other hand, resistivity is estimated to only be a secondary effect, as seen in
previous simulation studies.
