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Inertial confinement fusion: a defence context. [PDF]

Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci, 2020
Almost 30 years since the last UK nuclear test, it remains necessary regularly to underwrite the safety and effectiveness of the National Nuclear Deterrent. To do so has been possible to date because of the development of continually improving science and engineering tools running on ever more powerful high-performance computing platforms, underpinned ...
Randewich A, Lock R, Garbett W, Bethencourt-Smith D.   +3 more
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Observation of persistent species temperature separation in inertial confinement fusion mixtures [PDF]

Nature Communications, 2020
The influence of contaminants is one of the factors hindering self-sustained thermonuclear burn in inertial confinement fusion. Here, the authors present evidence, through simulations and experiments, that contaminants do not fully reach thermal ...
Brian M. Haines, R. C. Shah, J. M. Smidt, B. J. Albright, T. Cardenas, M. R. Douglas, C. Forrest, V. Yu Glebov, M. A. Gunderson, C. E. Hamilton, K. C. Henderson, Y. Kim, M. N. Lee, T. J. Murphy, J. A. Oertel, R. E. Olson, B. M. Patterson, R. B. Randolph, D. W. Schmidt   +18 more
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Diagnosing inertial confinement fusion ignition

Nuclear Fusion
Fusion ignition by inertial confinement requires compression and heating of the fusion fuel to temperatures in excess of 5 keV and densities exceeding hundreds of g/cc.
A.S. Moore, L. Divol, B. Bachmann, R. Bionta, D. Bradley, D.T. Casey, P. Celliers, H. Chen, A. Do, E. Dewald, M. Eckart, D. Fittinghoff, J. Frenje, M. Gatu-Johnson, H. Geppert-Kleinrath, V. Geppert-Kleinrath, G. Grim, K. Hahn, M. Hohenberger, J. Holder, O. Hurricane, N. Izumi, S. Kerr, S.F. Khan, J.D. Kilkenny, Y. Kim, B. Kozioziemski, N. Lemos, A.G. MacPhee, P. Michel, M. Millot, K.D. Meaney, S. Nagel, A. Pak, J.E. Ralph, J.S. Ross, M.S. Rubery, D.J. Schlossberg, V. Smalyuk, G. Swadling, R. Tommasini, C. Trosseille, A.B. Zylstra, A. Mackinnon, J.D. Moody, O.L. Landen, R. Town   +46 more
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Inertial Confinement Fusion [PDF]

Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science, 1982
James J Duderstadt and Gregory A Moses 1982 New York: Wiley-lnterscience x + 347 pp price £36 Commercial fusion power has proved elusive. The idea of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is to compress a 1–2 mm radius pellet containing 50–50 liquid deuterium-tritium to approximately 104 times liquid density and a central temperature of 2 keV.
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Review of commercial nuclear fusion projects

Frontiers in Energy Research, 2023
Nuclear fusion technologies have re-gained momentum in the last decade thanks to their disruptive potential in different fields, such as energy production and space propulsion, and to new technological developments, especially high temperature ...
Samuele Meschini, Francesco Laviano, Francesco Laviano, Federico Ledda, Federico Ledda, Davide Pettinari, Raffella Testoni, Daniele Torsello, Daniele Torsello, Bruno Panella   +9 more
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Thermal transport in warm dense matter revealed by refraction-enhanced x-ray radiography with a deep-neural-network analysis

Communications Physics, 2023
Transport properties of high energy density matter affect the evolution of many systems, ranging from the geodynamo in the Earth’s core, to hydrodynamic instability growth in inertial confinement fusion capsules.
S. Jiang, O. L. Landen, H. D. Whitley, S. Hamel, R. London, D. S. Clark, P. Sterne, S. B. Hansen, S. X. Hu, G. W. Collins, Y. Ping   +10 more
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Clustering of vertically constrained passive particles in homogeneous, isotropic turbulence [PDF]

, 2014
We analyze the dynamics of small particles vertically confined, by means of a linear restoring force, to move within a horizontal fluid slab in a three-dimensional (3D) homogeneous isotropic turbulent velocity field. The model that we introduce and study
Biferale, Luca, Clercx, Herman J. H., De Pietro, Massimo, Perlekar, Prasad, Toschi, Federico, van Hinsberg, Michel A. T.   +5 more
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Interstellar Propulsion Using Laser-Driven Inertial Confinement Fusion Physics

Universe, 2022
To transport a spacecraft to distances far beyond the solar heliosphere and around the planets of other stars will require advanced space propulsion systems that go beyond the existing technological state of the art. The release of fusion energy from the
Kelvin F. Long
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Inertial Effects on the Stress Generation of Active Fluids [PDF]

, 2017
Suspensions of self-propelled bodies generate a unique mechanical stress owing to their motility that impacts their large-scale collective behavior. For microswimmers suspended in a fluid with negligible particle inertia, we have shown that the virial ...
Brady, John F., Takatori, Sho C.
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Structural properties of hydrogen isotopes in solid phase in the context of inertial confinement fusion

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2013
Quality of Deuterium-Tritium capsules is a critical aspect in Inertial Confinement Fusion. In this work, we present a Quantum Molecular Dynamics methodology able to model hydrogen isotopes and their structural molecular organisation at extreme pressures ...
Guerrero Carlo, Cuesta-Lopez Santiago, Perlado J.M.   +2 more
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