Status of inertial fusion

Conference · Wed Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:6157933

Keefe, D

The technology advancement to high-power beams has also given birth to new technologies. That class of Free Electron Lasers that employs rf linacs, synchrotrons, and storage rings - although the use the tools of High Energy Physics (HEP) - was developed well behind the kinetic energy frontier. The induction linac, however, is something of an exception; it was born directly from the needs of the magnetic fusion program, and was not motivated by a high-energy physics application. The heavy-ion approach to inertial fusion starts with picking from the rich menu of accelerator technologies those that have, ab initio, the essential ingredients needed for a power plant driver: multigap acceleration - which leads to reliability/lifetime; electrical efficiency; repetition rate; and beams that can be reliably focused over a suitably long distance. The report describes the programs underway in Heavy Ion Fusion Accelerator Research as well as listing expected advances in driver, target, and beam quality areas in the inertial fusion power program.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 6157933
• Report Number(s): LBL-23326; CONF-870457-3; ON: DE87010988
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
700208* -- Fusion Power Plant Technology-- Inertial Confinement Technology
ACCELERATORS
BEAMS
CONFINEMENT
EXPERIMENT PLANNING
HEAVY ION ACCELERATORS
HEAVY ION FUSION REACTIONS
INERTIAL CONFINEMENT
LINEAR ACCELERATORS
NUCLEAR REACTIONS
PARTICLE BEAMS
PLANNING
PLASMA CONFINEMENT
RESEARCH PROGRAMS