Sentences with phrase «inertial confinement fusion»

Although researchers have been working on inertial confinement fusion for more than 50 years, no device has yet achieved ignition.

Sandia's MagLIF technique is similar to NIF's in that it rapidly crushes its fuel — a process known as inertial confinement fusion.

Laser - powered fusion, sometimes called inertial confinement fusion, is produced by focusing an array of powerful laser beams on a small pellet of hydrogen fuel.

This is the stuff nuclear weapons designers deal with, as well as with inertial confinement fusion.

The same technique can be used to infer the density of the plasma and strength of the magnetic field created by inertial confinement fusion experiments.

In a review of the state of the research in this field, Rochester physicist Riccardo Betti concludes the goal of realizing abundant, clean energy from inertial confinement fusion remains elusive, despite recent significant progress.

This, of course, should not dull interest in the American inertial confinement fusion program: Not achieving a major scientific result by a pre-determined and artificial deadline is far from a failure.

The United States should embark on a coordinated national research program into inertial confinement fusion — but only after researchers successfully demonstrate the scientific basis of the technology by creating a burning plasma in the laboratory, an expert panel assembled by the U.S. National Academies recommends in a report released today.

Inertial confinement fusion achieves this by crushing tiny capsules of fuel with intense laser or magnetic field pulses to achieve the required conditions.

In his time at LLNL, he has performed extensive and formative work in the National Ignition Facility (NIF) program areas, including designing inertial confinement fusion chambers, targets and lasers, as well as developing computer optimization software.

Turbulent mixing has important consequences for supersonic engines, inertial confinement fusion reactions, and supernova explosions.

The process when optimized should allow fusion reactions to occur at 1 to 2 percent of the density and pressure required in traditional inertial confinement fusion, which has used either laser - created X-ray pulses or direct laser illumination to spherically compress a pea - sized capsule containing fusion fuel.

The fact that ignition in a large American experimental inertial confinement fusion facility did not occur as hoped by Sept. 30 has sadly raised questions about the scientific legitimacy of that pursuit.

NIF, by contrast, is developing a technique called inertial confinement fusion that is quite different.

An alternate approach, known as inertial confinement fusion, has also made substantial progress.

Studies of non-hydrodynamic processes in inertial confinement fusion implosions on OMEGA and the National Ignition Facility

He has been involved in understanding the impact of hydrodynamic instabilities on inertial confinement fusion, both direct and indirect drive, HED physics for stockpile stewardship and the role hydrodynamics play in astrophysical phenomena.

HiPER aims to use smaller lasers within an inertial confinement fusion device in the expectation that, once «lit,» the fusion reaction will spread on its own.