Comment on “An Overview of Inertial Fusion Reactor Design” and “Technology Requirements for Commercial Applications of Inertial Confinement Fusion”

1982 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 430-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. E. Wilhelm
Keyword(s):  
Inertial Confinement Fusion ◽  
Fusion Reactor ◽  
Reactor Design ◽  
Design And Technology ◽  
Inertial Fusion ◽  
Inertial Confinement ◽  
Confinement Fusion ◽  
Commercial Applications

scholarly journals Prospects for high gain inertial fusion energy: an introduction to the first special edition

2020 ◽  
Vol 378 (2184) ◽  
pp. 20200006 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. A. Norreys ◽  
C. Ridgers ◽  
K. Lancaster ◽  
M. Koepke ◽  
G. Tynan
Keyword(s):  
Inertial Confinement Fusion ◽  
Fusion Energy ◽  
High Gain ◽  
Inertial Fusion ◽  
Inertial Fusion Energy ◽  
Inertial Confinement ◽  
Energy Part ◽  
Confinement Fusion ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Basic Studies

A European consortium of 15 laboratories across nine nations have worked together under the EUROFusion Enabling Research grants for the past decade with three principle objectives. These are: (a) investigating obstacles to ignition on megaJoule-class laser facilities; (b) investigating novel alternative approaches to ignition, including basic studies for fast ignition (both electron and ion-driven), auxiliary heating, shock ignition etc.; and (c) developing technologies that will be required in the future for a fusion reactor. The Hooke discussion meeting in March 2020 provided an opportunity to reflect on the progress made in inertial confinement fusion research world-wide to date. This first edition of two special issues seeks to identify paths forward to achieve high fusion energy gain. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Prospects for high gain inertial fusion energy (part 1)’.

Heavy Ion Accelerator–Driven Inertial Fusion

2015 ◽  
Vol 08 ◽  
pp. 37-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingo Hofmann
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Ions ◽  
Inertial Confinement Fusion ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Heavy Ion ◽  
High Repetition Rate ◽  
Inertial Fusion ◽  
Inertial Confinement ◽  
Ion Accelerator ◽  
Confinement Fusion ◽  
Potential Efficiency

The idea of using accelerators in the production of energy by inertial confinement fusion has been developed since the mid-1970s. The basic concept is to use accelerated beams of heavy ions to provide energy to implode and ignite a small fusion pellet. Accelerators have been seen as attractive for this application due to their reliability, high repetition rate, and potential efficiency. They are therefore competitive with high power lasers at least for the commercial production of electrical power. This review summarizes part of the development and scientific efforts directed toward this application, which has been realized over time to be an extremely demanding one. Here we focus primarily on the rf linac/storage ring driver system approach and summarize the specific development that culminated in the European HIDIF study of the late 1990s. We also discuss some of the relevant followup accelerator studies.

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