Addressing the issues of target fabrication and injection for inertial fusion energy

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 69, Issue 1-4 SPEC, 2003, Pages 803-806

  Goodin, D T ^a   Nobile, A ^b   Hoffer, J ^b   Nikroo, A ^a   Besenbruch, G E ^a   Brown, L C ^a   Maxwell, J L ^b   Meier, W R ^c   Norimatsu, T ^d   Pulsifer, J ^e   Rickman, W S ^f   Steckle, W ^b   Stephens, E H ^e   Tillack, M ^e  

^a GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f TSD Management Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Direct drive targets; DT fuel; Inertial fusion energy

Indexed keywords

HEAVY IONS; LASER APPLICATIONS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

DIRECT DRIVE TARGETS;

FUSION REACTIONS;

EID: 0041329852     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-3796(03)00168-6     Document Type: Article

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