Heavy-ion fusion: setting the stage

Conference · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1986 · Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5576814

Herrmannsfeldt, W B

The purpose of HIFSA is to search for innovative solutions to reduce the costs of HIF. Inevitably, the search must concentration on the accelerator system because that is the most expensive component of an HIF system. It uses the induction linac technology that is the method of choice for the US Dept. of Energy's HIFAR program because this technology promises to be simpler and cheaper than the radio-frequency linac/storage ring technology chosen for HIBALL. Beyond this one constraint, the study is open-ended; different reactors, charge states, ion species, target designs, etc., all are available. It is a very large parameter space and some parts of this space are apt to be more or less expensive than others. To help in the search, the Electric Power Research Institute has funded the McDonnell Douglas Corporation to develop a computer methodology to find optimized sets of parameters. As input, they need sets of accelerator data, which are provided by Lawrence Berkeley Lab. and target and reactor parameters from Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Labs. Thus the experiences of four institutions are coming together to participate in this effort.

• OSTI ID: 5576814
• Report Number(s): CONF-860610-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Trans. Am. Nucl. Soc.; (United States) Journal Volume: 52
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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