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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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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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Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) basics [PDF]

EPJ Web of Conferences
Producing fusion reactions in a controlled way requires heating a mixture of the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium (DT) to temperatures in excess of 5 x 107 K and confining it for a sufficiently long time.
Atzeni Stefano
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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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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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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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Contribution of Particle–Wall Distance and Rotational Motion of a Single Confined Elliptical Particle to the Effective Viscosity in Pressure-Driven Plane Poiseuille Flows

Applied Sciences, 2021
Rheological properties of the suspension flow, especially effective viscosity, partly depend on spatial arrangement and motion of suspended particles. It is important to consider effective viscosity from the microscopic point of view.
Misa Kawaguchi, Tomohiro Fukui, Koji Morinishi   +2 more
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Generation of a sharp density increase in radiation transport between high-Z and low-Z plasmas

Matter and Radiation at Extremes, 2016
A sharp density increase (referred to as density incrustation) of the Au plasmas in the radiative cooling process of high-Z Au plasmas confined by low-Z CH plasmas is found through the radiative hydrodynamic simulations.
Guangwei Meng, Jianguo Wang, Xuerong Wang, Jinghong Li, Weiyan Zhang   +4 more
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