Z-Pinch Power Plant Design and IFE Materials Program on Z and RHEPP at SNL
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چکیده
There are presently four driver technologies that are being developed for IFE Power Plants: these are HIF (Heavy Ion Fusion), KrF (Krypton Fluoride laser), DPSSL (Diode-Pumped Solid-State Laser), and Z-Pinches. All four types were included in the discussions at the Snowmass Fusion Summer Study in 1999 [1]. The purpose of this paper is to discuss (1) the z-pinch power plant concept, and (2) the IFE chamber materials program on Z and RHEPP at SNL. The z-pinch power plant concept offers several advantages for a robust IFE power plant. The IFE chamber materials program will be used to study IFE chamber materials response for all IFE power plant scenarios at power plant level fluences now.
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