Avalanche boron fusion by laser picosecond block ignition with magnetic trapping for clean and economic reactor

Hora, H.; Korn, G.; Eliezer, S.; Nissim, N.; Lalousis, P.; Giuffrida, L.; Margarone, D.; Picciotto, A.; Miley, G. H.; Moustaizis, S.; Martinez-Val, J. -M.; Barty, C. P. J.; Kirchhoff, G. J.

doi:10.1017/hpl.2016.29

Title: Avalanche boron fusion by laser picosecond block ignition with magnetic trapping for clean and economic reactor

Journal Article · Tue Oct 11 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · High Power Laser Science and Engineering

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1017/hpl.2016.29· OSTI ID:1395299

Hora, H. ^[1]; Korn, G. ^[2]; Eliezer, S. ^[3]; Nissim, N. ^[4]; Lalousis, P. ^[5]; Giuffrida, L. ^[2]; Margarone, D. ^[2]; Picciotto, A. ^[6]; Miley, G. H. ^[7]; Moustaizis, S. ^[8]; Martinez-Val, J. -M. ^[9]; Barty, C. P. J. ^[10]; Kirchhoff, G. J. ^[11]

Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW (Australia). Dept. of Theoretical Physics
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (ASCR), Prague (Czech Republic). Inst. of Physics, ELI-Beamline Project
Polytechnic Univ. of Madrid, Madrid (Spain). Inst. of Nuclear Fusion; Soreq Research Center, Yavne (Israel)
Soreq Research Center, Yavne (Israel)
Inst. of Electronic Structure and Lasers (FORTH), Heraklion (Greece)
Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento (Italy). Micro-Nano Facility
Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL (United States). Dept. of Nuclear Plasma & Radiological Engineering
Technical Univ. Crete, Chania (Greece). Lab. of Matter Structure and Laser Physics
Polytechnic Univ. of Madrid, Madrid (Spain). Inst. of Nuclear Fusion
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
UJK Management GmbH, Poing (Germany)

Measured highly elevated gains of proton–boron (HB11) fusion (Picciottoet al., Phys. Rev. X4, 031030 (2014)) confirmed the exceptional avalanche reaction process (Lalousiset al., Laser Part. Beams 32, 409 (2014); Horaet al., Laser Part. Beams33, 607 (2015)) for the combination of the non-thermal block ignition using ultrahigh intensity laser pulses of picoseconds duration. The ultrahigh accelerationabove$$10^{20}~\text{cm}~\text{s}^{-2}$$ for plasma blocks was theoretically and numerically predicted since 1978 (Hora,Physics of Laser Driven Plasmas(Wiley, 1981), pp. 178 and 179) and measured (Sauerbrey, Phys. Plasmas3, 4712 (1996)) in exact agreement (Horaet al., Phys. Plasmas14, 072701 (2007)) when the dominating force was overcoming thermal processes. This is based on Maxwell’s stress tensor by the dielectric properties of plasma leading to the nonlinear (ponderomotive) force $$f_{\text{NL}}$$ resulting in ultra-fast expanding plasma blocks by a dielectric explosion. Combining this with measured ultrahigh magnetic fields and the avalanche process opens an option for an environmentally absolute clean and economic boron fusion power reactor. Finally, this is supported also by other experiments with very high HB11 reactions under different conditions (Labauneet al., Nature Commun.4, 2506 (2013)).

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC52-07NA27344

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Journal Information:: High Power Laser Science and Engineering, Vol. 4; ISSN 2095-4719

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