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PROSPECTS FOR INERTIAL CONFINEMENT
Pages 14-16

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... Progress in understanding inertial confinement is being made rapidly now that suitably high-powered laser sources are becoming available and sophisticated diagnostics are being developed to obtain experimental data on the extreme short time scales (picoseconds to nanoseconds) characteristic of this approach.
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From page 15...
... "The unpublished laser-fusion target designs suggested by recent LLL and LASL studies offer a very interesting and important possibility of pellet gain markedly exceeding that achievable with the presently published designs. The new design concepts, however, still require a very extensive experimental program.
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... We note however that very high pellet yields, requiring large containment vessels and possibly leading to marked variations in thermal output, may lead to difficulties in economics and in compatibility with power grid requirements." Further elaboratorion of technological issues related to inertial confinement may be found in the next section.
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