Nuclear Photonics 2023

Session

Inertial Confinement Fusion

Tu2

Sep 12, 2023, 11:05 AM

Junior Ballroom (Durham Convention Center)

Conveners

Inertial Confinement Fusion

• Calvin Howell (Duke University and TUNL)

22. Progress in Laser Direct-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion

Riccardo Betti (Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE), University of Rochester)

9/12/23, 11:05 AM

Recent progress in cryogenic DT-layered implosion experiments on the OMEGA laser have considerably improved the prospects for achieving thermonuclear ignition and energy gains with megajoule-class lasers via direct drive. By hydrodynamically scaling the core conditions of highest performing OMEGA implosions [1], fusion yields above a megajoule are expected for 2 MJ of symmetric laser...

23. National Ignition Facility: Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough

Benjamin Bachmann (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

9/12/23, 11:40 AM

Groundbreaking advancements have been made in Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) research at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), resulting in experiments that have surpassed Lawson's criterion and have demonstrated a gain (G) greater than unity [1]. Improving the gain in ICF requires achieving higher areal densities, exceeding 1.5 g/cm2, assembled via spherical compression to confine the fuel...