Overview of Recent Tritium Target Filling, Layering, and Material Testing at Los Alamos National Laboratory in Support of Inertial Fusion Experiments
| Autor: | J. J. Sanchez, W. T. Shmayda, Arthur Nobile, Drew Geller, Peter S. Ebey, John Morris, Jon R. Schoonover, S. A. Letts, John D. Sheliak, Mark Bonino, Abbas Nikroo, James M. Dole, James K. Hoffer, Craig Sangster, Bob Cook, Doug Wilson, D. R. Harding, John Burmann |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Předmět: |
Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Thermonuclear fusion Materials science Power station 020209 energy Mechanical Engineering Nuclear engineering Implosion 02 engineering and technology Cryogenics Fusion power 01 natural sciences 010305 fluids & plasmas Nuclear physics Nuclear Energy and Engineering Physics::Plasma Physics Fusion ignition 0103 physical sciences 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Physics::Accelerator Physics Nuclear fusion General Materials Science Inertial confinement fusion Civil and Structural Engineering |
| Zdroj: | Fusion Science and Technology. 54:375-378 |
| ISSN: | 1943-7641 1536-1055 |
| DOI: | 10.13182/fst08-a1834 |
| Popis: | The Tritium Science and Engineering (AET-3) Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) performs a variety of activities to support Inertial Fusion (IF) research - both to further fundamental fusion science and to develop technologies in support of Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) power generation. Inertial fusion ignition target designs have a smooth spherical shell of cryogenic Deuterium-Tritium (DT) solid contained within a metal or plastic shell that is a few mm in diameter. Fusion is attained by imploding these shells under the symmetric application of energy beams. For IFE targets the DT solid must also survive the process of injecting it into the power plant reactor. Non-ignition IF targets often require a non-cryogenic DT gas fill of a glass or polymeric shell. In this paper an overview will be given of recent LANL activities to study cryogenic DT layering, observe tritium exposure effects on IF relevant materials, and fill targets in support of IF implosion experiments. (authors) |
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