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Title: Preparations for a European R&D roadmap for an inertial fusion demo reactor

Abstract

A European consortium of 15 laboratories across nine nations have worked together under the EUROFusion Enabling Research grants for the past decade with three principle objectives. These are: (a) investigating obstacles to ignition on megaJoule-class laser facilities; (b) investigating novel alternative approaches to ignition, including basic studies for fast ignition (both electron and ion-driven), auxiliary heating, shock ignition, etc.; and (c) developing technologies that will be required in the future for a fusion reactor. This paperr presents a brief overview of these activities, along with new calculations relates the concept of auxiliary heating of inertial fusion targets, and provides possible future directions of research and development for the updated European Roadmap that is due at the end of 2020. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Prospects for high gain inertial fusion energy (part 2)’.

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  1. Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom); Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Didcot (United Kingdom). Central Laser Facility
  2. Univ. de Bordeaux (France)
  3. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  4. Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom)
  5. Univ. of Oxford (United Kingdom); Mewburn Ellis LLP, London (United Kingdom)
  6. Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Didcot (United Kingdom). Central Laser Facility
  7. Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Didcot (United Kingdom). Central Laser Facility; Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow (United Kingdom)
  8. Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), Berkshire (United Kingdom)
  9. (Austin) [Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); European Commission (EC); Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
OSTI Identifier:
1735902
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-20-22605
Journal ID: ISSN 1364-503X; TRN: US2205264
Grant/Contract Number:  
89233218CNA000001; AC52-06NA25396; 633053; EP/L000237/11; EP/R029148/1
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. A, Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 379; Journal Issue: 2189; Journal ID: ISSN 1364-503X
Publisher:
The Royal Society Publishing
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; IFE Roadmap; fast ignition; inertial confinement fusion; auxiliary heating; inertial fusion energy; high-energy density plasma physics

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Norreys, P. A., Ceurvorst, L., Sadler, James David, Spiers, B. T., Aboushelbaya, R., Mayr, M. W., Paddock, R., Ratan, N., Savin, A. F., Wang, R. H. W., Glize, K., Trines, R. M. G. M., Bingham, R., Hill, M. P., Sircombe, N., Ramsay, M., Allan, P., Hobbs, L., James, S., Skidmore, J., Fyrth, J., Luis, J., Floyd, E., Brown, C., Haines, Brian Michael, Olson, Richard Edward, Yi, Sunghwan, Zylstra, Alex B., Flippo, Kirk Adler, Bradley, Paul Andrew, Peterson, Robert Ross, Kline, John L., and Leeper, Ramon J.. Preparations for a European R&D roadmap for an inertial fusion demo reactor. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1098/rsta.2020.0005.
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Norreys, P. A., Ceurvorst, L., Sadler, James David, Spiers, B. T., Aboushelbaya, R., Mayr, M. W., Paddock, R., Ratan, N., Savin, A. F., Wang, R. H. W., Glize, K., Trines, R. M. G. M., Bingham, R., Hill, M. P., Sircombe, N., Ramsay, M., Allan, P., Hobbs, L., James, S., Skidmore, J., Fyrth, J., Luis, J., Floyd, E., Brown, C., Haines, Brian Michael, Olson, Richard Edward, Yi, Sunghwan, Zylstra, Alex B., Flippo, Kirk Adler, Bradley, Paul Andrew, Peterson, Robert Ross, Kline, John L., & Leeper, Ramon J.. Preparations for a European R&D roadmap for an inertial fusion demo reactor. United States. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2020.0005
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Norreys, P. A., Ceurvorst, L., Sadler, James David, Spiers, B. T., Aboushelbaya, R., Mayr, M. W., Paddock, R., Ratan, N., Savin, A. F., Wang, R. H. W., Glize, K., Trines, R. M. G. M., Bingham, R., Hill, M. P., Sircombe, N., Ramsay, M., Allan, P., Hobbs, L., James, S., Skidmore, J., Fyrth, J., Luis, J., Floyd, E., Brown, C., Haines, Brian Michael, Olson, Richard Edward, Yi, Sunghwan, Zylstra, Alex B., Flippo, Kirk Adler, Bradley, Paul Andrew, Peterson, Robert Ross, Kline, John L., and Leeper, Ramon J.. Mon . "Preparations for a European R&D roadmap for an inertial fusion demo reactor". United States. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2020.0005. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1735902.
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@article{osti_1735902,
title = {Preparations for a European R&D roadmap for an inertial fusion demo reactor},
author = {Norreys, P. A. and Ceurvorst, L. and Sadler, James David and Spiers, B. T. and Aboushelbaya, R. and Mayr, M. W. and Paddock, R. and Ratan, N. and Savin, A. F. and Wang, R. H. W. and Glize, K. and Trines, R. M. G. M. and Bingham, R. and Hill, M. P. and Sircombe, N. and Ramsay, M. and Allan, P. and Hobbs, L. and James, S. and Skidmore, J. and Fyrth, J. and Luis, J. and Floyd, E. and Brown, C. and Haines, Brian Michael and Olson, Richard Edward and Yi, Sunghwan and Zylstra, Alex B. and Flippo, Kirk Adler and Bradley, Paul Andrew and Peterson, Robert Ross and Kline, John L. and Leeper, Ramon J.},
abstractNote = {A European consortium of 15 laboratories across nine nations have worked together under the EUROFusion Enabling Research grants for the past decade with three principle objectives. These are: (a) investigating obstacles to ignition on megaJoule-class laser facilities; (b) investigating novel alternative approaches to ignition, including basic studies for fast ignition (both electron and ion-driven), auxiliary heating, shock ignition, etc.; and (c) developing technologies that will be required in the future for a fusion reactor. This paperr presents a brief overview of these activities, along with new calculations relates the concept of auxiliary heating of inertial fusion targets, and provides possible future directions of research and development for the updated European Roadmap that is due at the end of 2020. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Prospects for high gain inertial fusion energy (part 2)’.},
doi = {10.1098/rsta.2020.0005},
journal = {Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. A, Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences},
number = 2189,
volume = 379,
place = {United States},
year = {2020},
month = {12}
}
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