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Appendix F: Foreign Inertial Fusion Energy Programs
Pages 199-203

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From page 199...
... project is an international collaborative research activity to design a high-power laser fusion facility capable of "significant energy production."1 It is funded by 10 funding agency partners in the European Union (from the United Kingdom, France, the Czech Republic, Greece, Spain, and Italy) and has 17 institutional partners.
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From page 200...
... HiPER appears to have no intention of pursuing indirect drive ignition, possibly, at least in part, because French law forbids use of military program data for civilian use. The U.K.'s Atomic Weapons Establishment has been working with the United States on indirect drive at the National Ignition Facility (NIF)
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From page 201...
... It has no plans to expand its capabilities for mass-production of IFE targets for the time being and will rely on General Atomics for targets for the foreseeable future. The future challenges that LMJ will face in IFE are similar to those facing other programs reliant on indirect drive: building, positioning, and orienting high velocity targets; managing the large mass present in an indirect-drive-type target; and meeting the higher energy requirement for indirect drive ignition predicted by computer simulation.
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From page 202...
... Japan says that most critical elements of IFE reactor construction have been addressed and/or demonstrated, such as mass production of targets and high-speed target injection, magnetic field laser port protection, and liquid first-wall stability. The current plans for i-LIFT include operation from 2021 to 2032.
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From page 203...
... The radiation-hydrodynamics code RAMPHY has been used to study the effects of liquid film ablation and radiation transport, as well as other effects of importance to IFE, such as DT capsule implosion and burn, X-ray and charged particle stopping, and neutron deposition. Experimental work with the synchrotron SIS and the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR)
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  • czech republic
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