Use of heavy ions for inertial confinement fusion
Programs are underway at Argonne National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory to develop the application of high energy heavy ions to inertial confinement fusion. Experimental programs are in progress at each of the laboratories as well as conceptual designs of accelerator systems as drivers of large power plants with pellet fusion as the heat source. The requirements for these drivers are stated as a total energy of 1 MJ at a peak power of 100 TW in a shaped pulse with a repetition rate approximately greater than 1 Hz and an energy deposition rate of 20 MJ/g of target material. To date, Argonne has concentrated on accelerator systems which utilize rapid cycling synchrotrons with storage rings, Brookhaven and Argonne have designed systems with conventional rf linacs and storage rings, and Berkeley has developed the design for linear induction accelerators. This report will review thse conceptual designs as well as indicate the status of the experimental programs.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab., IL (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31-109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 6380984
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-781049-1; TRN: 79-008802
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 6. conference on particle accelerator, Dubna, USSR, 11 Oct 1978
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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