Target Injection Methods for Inertial Fusion Energy

Shock ignition target design for inertial fusion energy

Continuing work in the design of shock ignition targets is described. Because of reduced implosion velocity requirements, low target adiabats, and efficient drive by short wavelength lasers, these targets produce high gain (> 100) at laser energies well below 1 megajoule. Effects of hydrodynamic instabilities like Rayleigh-Taylor or RichtmyerMeshkov are greatly reduced in these low-aspect ratio...

Lead (Pb) Hohlraum: Target for Inertial Fusion Energy

Recent progress towards demonstrating inertial confinement fusion (ICF) ignition at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) has sparked wide interest in Laser Inertial Fusion Energy (LIFE) for carbon-free large-scale power generation. A LIFE-based fleet of power plants promises clean energy generation with no greenhouse gas emissions and a virtually limitless, widely available thermonuclear fuel s...

Fusion cross-sections for inertial fusion energy

The application of selective resonant tunneling model is extended from d 1 t fusion to other light nucleus fusion reactions, such as d 1 d fusion and d 1 3He. In contrast to traditional formulas, the new formula for the cross-section needs only a few parameters to fit the experimental data in the energy range of interest. The features of the astrophysical S-function are derived in terms of this...

Continuous and scalable polymer capsule processing for inertial fusion energy target shell fabrication using droplet microluidics

Ion Beam Heated Target Simulations for Warm Dense Matter Physics and Inertial Fusion Energy

Hydrodynamic simulations have been carried out using the multi-physics radiation hydrodynamics code HYDRA and the simplified one-dimensional hydrodynamics code DISH. We simulate possible targets for a near-term experiment at LBNL (the Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment, NDCX) and possible later experiments on a proposed facility (NDCX-II) for studies of warm dense matter and inertial fusi...