I suppose that the gold from the hohlraum is also recovered from the scrape off layer too, then?

I'm just curious whether/how the NIF's inertial containment approach would scale if it was firing one per second (say), 24x7. Not so much because gold is expensive, but rather, would that amount of gold start to muck up the works after a while?

Makes sense. In a working system, would the plasmified material be recovered before the next ignition, or would it just deposit onto the walls of the firing chamber?

what happens to the hohlraum after ignition?