Present status and future prospects of heavy ion beams as drivers for ICF

Conference · Tue Jan 21 04:00:00 EST 1986 · AIP Conf. Proc.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5704249

Godlove, T F

A candidate driver for a practical inertial fusion reactor system must, among other characteristics, be cost effective and reliable for the parameters required by the fusion target and the remainder of the system. Although the history of large particle accelerators provides abundant evidence of their reliability at high repetition rates, their capital cost for the fusion application has been open to question. Attempts to design cost effective systems began with accelerators based on currently available technology such as RF linacs and storage rings. The West German HIBALL and the Japanese HIBLIC are examples of this initial effort. These designs are sufficiently credible that a strong argument can be made for the heavy ion method in general, but to reduce the cost per unit power it was found necessary to design for large scale, hence high capital cost. Emphasis in the U.S. shifted to newer technologies which offer hope of significant improvement in cost. In this paper the status of various heavy ion driver designs are compared with currently perceived requirements in order to illustrate their potential and assess their development needs.

• Research Organization: U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Washington, DC 20545
• OSTI ID: 5704249
• Report Number(s): CONF-860510-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: AIP Conf. Proc.; (United States) Journal Volume: 152:1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
700208* -- Fusion Power Plant Technology-- Inertial Confinement Technology
ACCELERATORS
CHARGED PARTICLES
COST ESTIMATION
DOCUMENT TYPES
HEAVY ION ACCELERATORS
HEAVY IONS
IMPACT FUSION DRIVERS
ION BEAM FUSION REACTORS
IONS
REVIEWS
RF SYSTEMS
STORAGE RINGS
TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS