Progress in heavy-ion drivers for inertial fusion
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)
- Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Heavy-ion induction accelerators are being developed as fusion drivers for ICF power production in the US Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) program, in the Office of Fusion Energy of the US Department of Energy. In addition, they represent an attractive driver option for a high-yield microfusion facility for defense research. This paper describes recent progress in induction drivers for Heavy-Ion Fusion (HIF), and plans for future work. It presents research aimed at developing drivers having reduced cost and size, specifically advanced induction linacs and recirculating induction accelerators (recirculators). The goals and design of the Elise accelerator being built at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL), as the first stage of the ILSE (Induction Linac Systems Experiments) program, are described. Elise will accelerate, for the first time, space-charge-dominated ion beams which are of full driver scale in line-charge density and diameter. Elise will be a platform on which the critical beam manipulations of the induction approach can be explored. An experimental program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) exploring the recirculator principle on a small scale is described in some detail; it is expected that these studies will result ultimately in an operational prototype recirculating induction accelerator. In addition, other elements of the US HIF program are described.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 81106
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-JC-117332; CONF-9411152-5; ON: DE95014134; TRN: 95:016509
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) technical committee meeting on drivers for inertial confinement fusion, Paris (France), 14-18 Nov 1994; Other Information: PBD: 22 Dec 1994
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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