Abstract
The major material requirements for inertial confinement fusion (ICF) reactors and an indication of the research and development required to meet them are presented. These requirements are defined and analyzed by first describing the environment created in the process of generating energy with ICF, and then analyzing the laser ICF reactor concepts which have been designed to cope with this hostile environment. In this paper we discuss several ICF materials related problems. However, because of the large role given liquid lithium in most conceptual designs we have placed particular emphasis on describing the problems associated with flowing and containing liquid lithium In the pulsed radiation environment of ICF reactors.
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