Pathway to a lower cost high repetition rate ignition facility

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Obenschain, S P ^a   Colombant, D G ^a   Schmitt, A J ^a   Sethian, J D ^a   McGeoch, M W ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PLEX LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUSION POWER; INERTIAL FUSION ENERGY; KRYPTON-FLUORIDE LASER; PELLET DESIGNS;

IGNITION; KRYPTON; LASERS; NEUTRONS; POWER PLANTS;

LASER FUSION;

EID: 33744796828     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2198796     Document Type: Conference Paper

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