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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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Double 3 MJ dense plasma focus for thermonuclear drive inertial confinement fusion [PDF]

Scientific Reports
Nuclear fusion remains one of the most promising solutions for clean and sustainable energy production. However, significant challenges—including energy losses, plasma instabilities, and high operational costs—continue to hinder its practical realization.
S. M. Sadat Kiai, Shirin Adlparvar, Hossein Sadeghi, Samaneh Fazelpour   +3 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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Gamma-based nuclear fusion measurements at inertial confinement fusion facilities

Frontiers in Physics, 2022
Experiments performed on an inertial confinement fusion (ICF) platform offer a unique opportunity to study nuclear reactions, including reaction branches that are useful for diagnostic applications in ICF experiments as well as several that are relevant ...
Z. L. Mohamed, Y. Kim, J. P. Knauer
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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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Magneto-Inertial Fusion and Powerful Plasma Installations (A Review)

Applied Sciences, 2023
A review of theoretical and experimental studies in the field of compression and heating of a plasma target in an external magnetic field, which has recently been called magneto-inertial fusion (MIF), has been carried out.
Sergei V. Ryzhkov
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Inertial confinement fusion [PDF]

, 1992
This issue of the ICF Quarterly contains seven articles that describe recent progress in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's ICF program. The Department of Energy recently initiated an effort to design a 1--2 MJ glass laser, the proposed National Ignition Facility (NIF).
Powers, L., Condouris, R., Kotowski, M., Murphy, P.W. (eds.)   +3 more
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