HIBALL—A conceptual design study of a heavy-ion driven inertial confinement fusion power plant

Bohne, D.; Hofmann, I.; Keßler, G.; Kulcinski, G.L.; Meyer‐ter‐Vehn, J.; Möllendorff, Ulrich von; Moses, G.A.; Müller, R.; Sviatoslavsky, I.N.; Sze, D.K.; Vogelsang, W.F.

doi:10.1016/0029-5493(82)90293-x

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“…The RF linadstorage ring scenario was the choice in the HIBALL study (7) and is the favoured option in the recent discussions at CERN and GSI on a future European facility for heavy ion fusion. The HIBALL scenario is given in Figure 6 as an example.…”

Section: Radio-frequency (Rf) H a Wmentioning

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Inertial confinement fusion driven by heavy ion beams

Meyer‐ter‐Vehn

1992

Nuclear Physics News

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Section: Radio-frequency (Rf) H a Wmentioning

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Inertial confinement fusion driven by heavy ion beams

Meyer‐ter‐Vehn

1992

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“…The previous HIF and relating reactor system designs are found in Refs. [2][3][4]94]. In the near future we need to have an advanced conceptual design including the new progresses in the HIF researches as well as other remaining issues.…”

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Review of heavy-ion inertial fusion physics

Kawata

Karino

Ogoyski

2016

Matter and Radiation at Extremes

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In this review paper on heavy ion inertial fusion (HIF), the state-of-the-art scientific results are presented and discussed on the HIF physics, including physics of the heavy ion beam (HIB) transport in a fusion reactor, the HIBs-ion illumination on a direct-drive fuel target, the fuel target physics, the uniformity of the HIF target implosion, the smoothing mechanisms of the target implosion nonuniformity and the robust target implosion. The HIB has remarkable preferable features to release the fusion energy in inertial fusion: in particle accelerators HIBs are generated with a high driver efficiency of ~ 30-40%, and the HIB ions deposit their energy inside of materials. Therefore, a requirement for the fusion target energy gain is relatively low, that would be ~50-70 to operate a HIF fusion reactor with the standard energy output of 1GW of electricity. The HIF reactor operation frequency would be ~10~15 Hz or so. Several-MJ HIBs illuminate a fusion fuel target, and the fuel target is imploded to about a thousand times of the solid density. Then the DT fuel is ignited and burned. The HIB ion deposition range is defined by the HIB ions stopping length, which would be ~1 mm or so depending on the material. Therefore, a relatively large density-scale length appears in the fuel target material. One of the critical issues in inertial fusion would be a spherically uniform target compression, which would be degraded by a non-uniform implosion. The implosion non-uniformity would be introduced by the Rayleigh-Taylor (R-T) instability, and the large density-gradient-scale length helps to reduce the R-T growth rate. On the other hand, the large scale length of the HIB ions stopping range suggests that the temperature at the energy deposition layer in a HIF target does not reach a very-high temperature: normally the about 300eV or so is realized in the energy absorption region, and that a direct-drive target would be appropriate in HIF. In addition, the HIB accelerators are operated repetitively and stably. The precise control of the HIB axis manipulation is also realized in the HIF accelerator, and the HIB wobbling motion may give another tool to smooth the HIB illumination non-uniformity. The key issues in HIF physics are also discussed and presented in the paper.

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“…In nuclear fusion major schemes are magnetic confinement fusion (MCF) [1,2,[4][5][6][7] and inertial confinement fusion (ICF) [2,3,[8][9][10][11]. In this review article, we focus on directdrive ICF based on heavy ion beam (HIB) [11][12][13][14][15][16]. In direct-drive HIB ICF (HIF), HIBs illuminate directly the surface of the fusion fuel spherical capsule.…”

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Direct-drive heavy ion beam inertial confinement fusion: a review, toward our future energy source

Kawata

2021

Advances in Physics: X

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Direct-drive heavy ion beam (HIB) inertial confinement fusion (ICF), or HIF would be a promising future energy source for society. Particle accelerators produce HIBs with precise particle energies, pulse lengths and pulse shapes with high energy efficiencies of ~30-40%. Higher energy driver efficiency means that a lower fusion energy output is required to construct a HIF power station to supply ~1 GW of electricity. A HIF power station could use about 4 to 5 MJ of HIB energy per shot at a shot rate of ~10 Hz. This review is focused on the direct-drive scheme in HIF. In directdrive fuel target HIBs deposit their energy into a shell surrounded by a denser tamping outer layer. The DT (Deuterium-Tritium) fusion fuel, with a total mass of several mg, must be compressed to about one thousand times solid density to reduce the input driver energy and to achieve an adequate burn fraction. Highdensity compression is a major challenge in ICF, requiring that non-uniformity in driver energy deposition be kept lower than a few percent. The axis of an HIB can be made to oscillate sufficiently rapidly to improve the uniformity of energy deposition.

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HIBALL—A conceptual design study of a heavy-ion driven inertial confinement fusion power plant

Cited by 43 publications

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Inertial confinement fusion driven by heavy ion beams

Inertial confinement fusion driven by heavy ion beams

Review of heavy-ion inertial fusion physics

Direct-drive heavy ion beam inertial confinement fusion: a review, toward our future energy source

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