Contributions on Laser Driven Inertial Confinement Fusion

Heinrich Hora

doi:10.3844/ajassp.2005.1085.1094

Abstract

The following modified preprint of a chapter in the forthcoming book by Guillermo Velarde and Natividad Carpintero Santamaria Inertial Confinement Nuclear Fusion: A Historical Approach by its Pioneers with personal comments is presented here as an example about the long years difficult developments towards the aim for producing unlimited, safe and clean nuclear energy in the same way as it is the energy source of the sun. There are arguments that the most recent developments with the plasma block ignition using petawatt-picosecond laser pulses may lead to a fusion power station with a highly simplified operation such that the cost of electricity may be three or more times lower than any energy source on earth, opening the golden age with dramatic consequences for human life and the environment. Applied sciences in all fields, economics and politics may be stimulated just by considering these consequences though these new results on Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) need to be further examined and developed on a broad basis.

Highlights

Lasers open the way to fusion energy by inertial numerical extension by Dawson - I used their self confinement: After having learnt computer similarity model for the hydrodynamics and my results programming with stone age machine codes up to the on optical plasma properties to perform systematic laser
The input was a uniform initial maximum plasma density no expressed in multiples of the solid state density ns where the spherical plasma had received an energy Eo expressed in relation to a break-even energy EBE
Using the well known fusion cross sections for DT (Deuterium and Tritiuim), I found an agreement with showed how the complex optical constants for the few cases calculated by Basov and by Dawson

Summary

INTRODUCTION

To the latter seen reproduction of the Basov-Krokhin paper by John Dawson - well appreciating some. Nuckolls had most pioneering results since 1960 and showed his unquestionably correct gains at 10,000 times solid state density in 1972[5] what was fully wrongly criticized by others later These computations seemed to be rather convincing and without difficulties if there was not the question, how to get the energy Eo uniformly into the compressed plasma sphere. For the dielectric properties of plasmas, I found the effect for Schrödinger waves with the phase versus first approach using the fields in inhomogeneous intensity problem of quantum mechanics etc.) At this time, Ray Kidder in Livermore led a very 1969 with the politics of Willy Brandt in connection interesting experiment with spherical irradiation of 16 with the non-proliferation treaty when my statements laser beams on a spherical target.

An essential progress of my formulation of the

This skin layer acceleration of plasma was then