The Rationale for an Expanded Inertial Fusion Energy Program

Dean, Stephen O.

doi:10.1007/s10894-007-9128-8

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“…This precompression may in future be avoided by using the cluster target with the average 1000 times solid state DT density for generating the electron beam. This would then be a single step laser fusion energy generation as it was postulated by Dean (2008).…”

Section: Possible Hydrogen Densities In Cluster Filled Crystals For Imentioning

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Ultrahigh-density deuterium of Rydberg matter clusters for inertial confinement fusion targets

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Clusters of condensed deuterium of densities up to 10 29 cm 23 in pores in solid oxide crystals were confirmed from time-offlight mass spectrometry measurements. Based on these facts, a schematic outline and possible conclusions of expectable generalizations are presented, which may lead to a simplification of laser driven fusion energy including new techniques for preparation of targets for application in experiments of the NIF type, but also for modified fast igniter experiments using proton or electron beams or side-on ignition of low compressed solid fusion fuel.

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Section: Possible Hydrogen Densities In Cluster Filled Crystals For Imentioning

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Ultrahigh-density deuterium of Rydberg matter clusters for inertial confinement fusion targets

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“…I provided Koonin with a "white paper" I had prepared with help from several members of the inertial fusion community [94], entitled "The Rationale for an Expanded Inertial Fusion Energy Program." The technical basis for the Rationale was primarily that the NNSA ICF program, via the nearing-completion National Ignition Facility (NIF), would soon be demonstrating ignition of fusion capsules in single shot mode and, consequently, "enhanced funding for IFE R&D is needed in the near term to prepare to expeditiously proceed beyond NIF to the energy application of inertial fusion."…”

Section: Inertial Fusion Energymentioning

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“…This is similar to the very high gain laser fusion energy scheme of Nuckolls and Wood (2005), by using very intense 5 MeV electron beams produced by 10 PW/ps laser pulses. These schemes are all special modifications of the fast ignition scheme (Tabak et al, 1994), however, it is a postulate of Dean (2008) to aim at a single laser-plasma interaction process, which may be reached at present only by the here discussed ion option scheme (Ghorannviss et al, 2008, see third and fourth paragraph of Section 1, and see Fig. 1).…”

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Layers from initial Rayleigh density profiles by directed nonlinear force driven plasma blocks for alternative fast ignition

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Measurement of extremely new phenomena during the interaction of laser pulses with terawatt and higher power and picoseconds with plasmas arrived at drastically different anomalies in contrast to the usual observations if the laser pulses were very clean with a contrast ratio higher than 10 8 . This was guaranteed by the suppression of prepulses during less than dozens of ps before the arrival of the main pulse resulting in the suppression of relativistic selffocusing. This anomaly was confirmed in many experimental details, and explained and numerically reproduced as a nonlinear force acceleration of skin layers generating quasi-neutral plasma blocks with ion current densities above 10 11 A/cm 2 . This may support the requirement to produce a fast ignition deuterium tritium fusion at densities not much higher than the solid state by a single shot PW-ps laser pulse. With the aim to achieve separately studied ignition conditions, we are studying numerically how the necessary nonlinear force accelerated plasma blocks may reach the highest possible thickness by using optimized dielectric properties of the irradiated plasma. The use of double Rayleigh initial density profiles results in many wavelength thick low reflectivity directed plasma blocks of modest temperatures. Results of computations with the genuine two-fluid model are presented.

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The Rationale for an Expanded Inertial Fusion Energy Program

Cited by 10 publications

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Ultrahigh-density deuterium of Rydberg matter clusters for inertial confinement fusion targets

Ultrahigh-density deuterium of Rydberg matter clusters for inertial confinement fusion targets

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Layers from initial Rayleigh density profiles by directed nonlinear force driven plasma blocks for alternative fast ignition

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