Fusion, inertially confined

Review of the Department of Energy s Inertial Confinement Fusion Programs, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., Sept. 1990. 

J. R. Murray, J. H. CampbeU, and D. N. Frank, Beamlet Project Technology Demonstration fora National Inertial Confinement Fusion Ignition Facility, Paper CTuCl, 1993 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Baltimore, Md., May 2—7, 1993. 

Pulsed plasmas containing hydrogen isotopes can produce bursts of alpha particles and neutrons as a consequence of nuclear reactions. The neutrons are useful for radiation-effects testing and for other materials research. A dense plasma focus filled with deuterium at low pressure has produced 10 neutrons in a single pulse (76) (see Deuterium AND TRITIUM). Intense neutron fluxes also are expected from thermonuclear fusion research devices employing either magnetic or inertial confinement. 

Representation of the inertial confinement fusion (ICF) concept. (U.S. Department of Energy)... 

Inertial confinement fusion has long succeeded in the context of militai y explosions—the hydrogen bomb. In the militai y application a fission bomb produces x-rays that drive an implosion of D-T fuel to enormous temperatures and densities such that fusion reactions occur during the short time that inertia keeps the fusing nuclei densely packed and hot. 

Lindl, J. D. (1998). Inertial Confinement Fusion The Quest for Ignition and Energy Gain Using Indirect Drive. New York Sprmger-Verlag. 

We are applying the principles of statistical experimental design to the development of low-density polymer foams for use as direct-drive high-gain targets for Laser Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF). Both polystyrene (PS) and resorcinol-formaldehyde (RF) foams are being developed. 

The gas-phase decomposition of beryllocenes has been examined for the doping of semiconductor materials and in the preparation of thin metal films. Molecular-beam expitaxy has been used with (MeC5H4)2Be to dope InP semiconductors only a small amount of carbon is found in the doped films.54 Beryllocene 9 has been explored as a precursor for coating capsules with beryllium metal for use as targets in experiments with inertial confinement fusion.55... 

Research Centers (IUCRC), 24 395 Inelastic mean free path (IMFP), 24 87 Inert fluids, 11 877 properties of, 11 879 Inert gas dilution, 11 456 Inert gases, 13 456 17 376-377. See also Helium- group elements Noble gases narcotic potency and solubility of, 17 377 Inert gas generators, 17 280 Inertial confinement fusion targets, microcapsules as, 16 460 Inertial impaction, in depth filtration theory, 11 339... 

Means to confine the plasma have been ihe major objective of fusion power research in several countries for a number of years. Methods researched lor confining the plasma include the use of strong magnetic fields and inertial confinement methods in which the fuel is pelletized in a special way and fusion reactions are initiated either by laser beams, beams of panicles, and heating the plasma with high power microwave radiation.2 Other means are being researched. 

VanDevender. J.P. and D.L. Cook "Inertial Confinement Fusion with Light km Beams/ Science, 232. 831-836 (1986),... 

Velarde. G.. Y. Rnncn, cl at. Nuclear Fusion bx inertial Confinement. CRC Press. LLC,. Boca Raton, FL. 1993. 

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