Dry-wall survival under IFE conditions

Fusion Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Raffray, A René ^a   El Guebaly, L ^b   Federici, G ^c   Haynes, D ^d   Najmabadi, F ^a   Petti, Dave ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^c International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor ITER Garching   (Germany)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e IDAHO NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dry chamber wall; Inertial fusion energy; Photon and ion energy deposition

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DEPOSITION; HEAT FLUX; HEAT TRANSFER; LASERS; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TUNGSTEN; X RAYS;

DRY CHAMBER WALLS; INERTIAL FUSION ENERGY (IFE); PHOTON AND ION ENERGY DEPOSITION; WALL PROTECTION;

FUSION REACTORS;

EID: 19744361829     PISSN: 15361055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13182/fst04-a581     Document Type: Article

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