Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) Review; JDR-96-300
McLean, VA: JASON, The Mitre Corporation, 1996. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Wraps. [2], iii, [1], 26 pages. Footnotes. Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is a type of fusion energy research that attempts to initiate nuclear fusion reactions by heating and compressing a fuel target, typically in the form of a pellet that most often contains a mixture of deuterium and tritium. Typical fuel pellets are about the size of a pinhead and contain around 10 milligrams of fuel. To compress and heat the fuel, energy is delivered to the outer layer of the target using high-energy beams of laser light, electrons or ions, although for a variety of reasons, almost all ICF devices as of 2015 have used lasers. The heated outer layer explodes outward, producing a reaction force against the remainder of the target, compressing the target. This process is designed to create shock waves that travel inward through the target. A sufficiently powerful set of shock waves can heat the fuel at the center so much that fusion reactions occur. During its 1996 Winter Study JASON reviewed the DOE Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) Program. This included the National Ignition Facility (NIF) and proposed studies. The result of the review was to comment on the role of the ICF program in support of the DOE Science Based Stockpile Stewardship Program. ICF is one of two major branches of fusion energy research, the other being magnetic confinement fusion. The largest operational ICF experiment is the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in the US, designed using the decades-long experience of earlier experiments. Like those earlier experiments, however, NIF has failed to reach ignition and is, as of 2015, generating about 1 3 of the required energy levels. Condition: Very good.
Keywords: Inertial Confinement Fusion, ICF, National Ignition Facility, NIF, Science Based Stockpile Stewardship Program, JASON, Accelerated Scientific Computing Initiative, Nuclear Weapon Physics
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