Progress and opportunities for inertial fusion energy in Europe

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Tikhonchuk, Vladimir
Progress and opportunities for inertial fusion energy in Europe.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. Roč. 378, č. 2184 (2020), s. 1-10, č. článku 20200013. ISSN 1364-503X. E-ISSN 1471-2962
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378271
Klíčová slova: inertial confinement fusion * europe science
Obor OECD: Fluids and plasma physics (including surface physics)
Impakt faktor: 4.226, rok: 2020
Způsob publikování: Open access

In this paper, I consider the motivations, recent results and perspectives for the inertial confinement fusion (ICF) studies in Europe. The European approach is based on the direct drive scheme with a preference for the central ignition boosted by a strong shock. Compared to other schemes, shock ignition offers a higher gain needed for the design of a future commercial reactor and relatively simple and technological targets, but implies a more complicated physics of laser–target interaction, energy transport and ignition. European scientists are studying physics issues of shock ignition schemes related to the target design, laser plasma interaction and implosion by the code developments and conducting experiments in collaboration with US and Japanese physicists, providing access to their installations Omega and Gekko XII.

Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0315595