Developing a commercial production process for 500 000 targets per day: A key challenge for inertial fusion energy

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Goodin, D T ^a   Alexander, N B ^a   Besenbruch, G E ^a   Bozek, A S ^a   Brown, L C ^a   Carlson, L C ^b   Flint, G W ^a   Goodman, P ^b   Kilkenny, J D ^a   Maksaereekul, W ^b   McQuillan, B W ^a   Nikroo, A ^a   Paguio, R R ^a   Petzoldt, R W ^a   Raffray, R ^b   Schroen, D G ^a   Sheliak, J D ^a   Spalding, J ^b   Streit, J E ^c   Tillack, M S ^b   Vermillion, B A ^a   more..

^a GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SCHAFER CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRIVER BEAMS; FUEL-CONTAINING CAPSULE; INERTIAL FUSION ENERGY (IFE); MICRON-PRECISION;

CRYOGENICS; ELECTRICITY; FUSION REACTIONS; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION; LASER BEAMS; LOW TEMPERATURE OPERATIONS; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR FUELS;

NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

EID: 33744832186     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2177129     Document Type: Conference Paper

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