Direct drive target survival during injection in an inertial fusion energy power plant

Nuclear Fusion

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1351-1356

  Petzoldt, Ronald W ^a   Goodin, D T ^a   Nikroo, A ^a   Stephens, E ^a   Siegel, N ^b   Alexander, N B ^a   Raffray, A R ^c   Mau, T K ^c   Tillack, M ^c   Najmabadi, F ^c   Krasheninnikov, S I ^c   Gallix, R ^a  

^a GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAT CONVECTION; LASER BEAMS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PARTICLE BEAM INJECTION; REFLECTIVE COATINGS; TARGETS; X RAYS;

INERTIAL FUSION ENERGY;

FUSION REACTIONS;

EID: 0036909634     PISSN: 00295515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/42/12/301     Document Type: Article

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