Repetitive pulsed power technology for inertial-confinement fusion

Conference · Sat Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:6232855

Prestwich, K R; Buttram, M T

The pulsed power requirements for inertial-confinement fusion reactors are defined for ion-beam and laser drivers. Several megajoule beams with 100's of terrawatt peak powers must be delivered to the reactor chamber 1 to 10 times per second. Ion-beam drivers are relatively efficient requiring less energy storage in the pulsed-power system but more time compression in the power flow chain than gas lasers. These high peak powers imply very large numbers of components for conventional pulse-power systems. A new design that significantly reduces the number of components is presented.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-76DP00789
• OSTI ID: 6232855
• Report Number(s): SAND-82-2388C; CONF-830406-55; ON: DE83012507
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
700208* -- Fusion Power Plant Technology-- Inertial Confinement Technology
AMPLIFICATION
CONFINEMENT
ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
ENERGY BALANCE
EQUIPMENT
GAIN
I-BEAM TYPE REACTORS
INERTIAL CONFINEMENT
ION BEAM TARGETS
ION SOURCES
LASER FUSION REACTORS
LASER TARGETS
LASERS
PLASMA CONFINEMENT
POWER SUPPLIES
TARGETS
THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS