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Summary (I). Experiments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

J. Pace Vandevender
Affiliation:
Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Extract

The conference has shown some important advances toward the solution of problems required for inertial fusion. We can tentatively categorize as solved, or nearly solved, the following problems: Marx prefires, Marx jitter, gas-switch prefires, gas-switch jitter, power combination of multi-modules, high-current beam divergence (in barreltype, Applied-B/MID diodes), and preheat. In addition, there are a set of mature problems with promising solutions: pulsed power accelerator efficiency, ion sources, and the electron kinetics of an extractor ion diode. Newer problems that were addressed at the meeting but still require considerable work include: impedance control of efficient ion diodes, diagnostics for both beams and targets, the further development of target design tools and their experimental verification, targetfabrication processes to make the nearly perfect targets required for inertial fusion, channel formation and beam transport in those channels at the power levels required for fusion, and pulse-shaping.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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