An evaluation of sustainability and societal impact of high-power laser and fusion technologies: a case for a new European research infrastructure

0552150 - FZÚ 2022 RIV GB eng J - Journal Article
Atzeni, S. - Batani, D. - Danson, C.N. - Gizzi, L.A. - Perlado, M. - Tatarakis, M. - Tikhonchuk, Vladimir - Volpe, L.
An evaluation of sustainability and societal impact of high-power laser and fusion technologies: a case for a new European research infrastructure.
High Power Laser Science and Engineering. Roč. 9, č. 52 (2021), s. 1-4, č. článku e52. ISSN 2095-4719. E-ISSN 2052-3289
Research Infrastructure: ELI Beamlines III - 90141
Institutional support: RVO:68378271
Keywords : inertial fusion for energy * European research infrastructure * high-power laser
OECD category: Fluids and plasma physics (including surface physics)
Impact factor: 5.943, year: 2021
Method of publishing: Open access

Fusion energy research is delivering impressive new results emerging from different infrastructures and industrial devices evolving rapidly from ideas to proof-of-principle demonstration and aiming at the conceptual design of reactors for the production of electricity. A major milestone has recently been announced in laser fusion by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and is giving new thrust to laser-fusion energy research worldwide. Here we discuss how these circumstances strongly suggest the need for a European intermediate-energy facility dedicated to the physics and technology of laser-fusion ignition, the physics of fusion materials and advanced technologies for high-repetitionrate, high-average-power broadband lasers.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0327615