Current Trends in International Fusion Research

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• Publisher: NRC Research Press
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN: 9781927346136
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Physical Sciences

The objective of this series of Symposia is to assess the benefits, applications, and spin-offs of nuclear fusion research, including both conventional and alternative approaches. The Symposia have been organized in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency and endorsed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Naval Research Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratory. This proceedings contains all the review papers presented at the meeting, held in Washington, DC, USA, on 7 - 11 March 2005, as well as the report from the Panel of Distinguished Scientists and Engineers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title page
• Copyright
• Title page
• A Review
• CONTENTS
• OPENING REMARKS
• EDWARD TELLER’S SCIENTIFIC LEGACY
• IAEA SUPPORT FOR FUSION ENERGY RESEARCH
• FUSION RESEARCH AS A SCIENTIFIC UNDERTAKING: RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER FIELDS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
• ENHANCEMENT OF THE THERMONUCLEAR COMPONENT OF THE NEUTRON YIELD IN PINCH PLASMA FOCUS. EXPERIMENTS IN DEVICES WITH ENERGY FROM 100kJ TO LESS THAN 1J
• ADVANCES TOWARDS PB11 FUSION WITH THE DENSE PLASMA FOCUS
• PLASMA FORMATION IN SPHERICAL TOKAMAKS WITHOUT A CENTRAL TRANFORMER SOLENOID
• ABOUT THE NEXT STEP IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A TOKAMAK FUSION REACTOR
• FUTURE ISSUES IN THE RFP RESEARCH
• SMALL SCALE FUSION: THE PULSED HIGH DENSITY FRC EXPERIMENT
• PLASMA AND ION BEAM INJECTION INTO AN FRC
• PROGRESS ON THE PEG PROGRAM
• PLASMA ELECTRIC GENERATOR SPACE PROPULSION SYSTEM
• SUPERSONICALLY ROTATING PLASMAS FOR MAGNETIC FUSION: THE MARYLAND CENTRIFUGAL EXPERIMENT
• COMMISSIONING THE NATIONAL IGNITION FACILITY
• COMMISSIONING STATUS OF THE MERCURY LASER, A SCALABLE OPTION FOR INERTIAL FUSION ENERGY
• THE INSTITUTE FOR FUSION STUDIES IN SOUTHERN ITALY: PROGRESS REPORT ON THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE FIRST FUSION PROTOTYPE REACTOR
• TAMING OF ELECTROMAGNETIC INSTABILITIES IN FAST IGNITION SCENARIOS FOR ICF AND REB STOPPING
• LOCALIZATION AND FUSION MODELING IN PLASMA PHYSICS. PART I: MATH FRAMEWORK FOR NON-EQUILIBRIUM HIERARCHIES
• LOCALIZATION AND FUSION MODELING IN PLASMA PHYSICS. PART II: VLASOV-LIKE SYSTEMS. IMPORTANT REDUCTIONS
• PROGRESS IN MIRROR PLASMA ACTIVITIES
• AXISYMMETRIC TANDEM MIRRORS: STATUS OF KINETIC-STABILIZER STUDIES
• DEMONSTRATION OF STEADY INDUCTIVE HELICITY INJECTION
• STOPPING POWER FOR ARBITRARY ANGLE BETWEEN NUCLEAR ALPHA PARTICLE VELOCITY AND MAGNETIC FIELD
• STAGED Z-PINCH FOR FUSION
• NONLOCAL TRANSPORT OF HEATBY ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVESIN MAGNETICALLY CONFINED PLASMAS
• DESIRABLE FUSION REACTOR QUALITIES FOR COMMERCIAL ELECTRICAL GENERATION APPLICATIONS
• DIRECT-DRIVE INERTIAL FUSION RESEARCH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER’S LABORATORY FOR LASER ENERGETICS: A REVIEW
• INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION AT LOS ALAMOS
• EVIDENCES FOR AND THE MODELS OF SELF-SIMILAR SKELETAL STRUCTURES IN FUSION DEVICES, SEVERE WEATHER PHENOMENA AND SPACE
• COMPRESSION OF FIELD REVERSED CONFIGURATIONS FOR MAGNETIZED TARGET FUSION
• FIELD-REVERSEDCONFIGURATIONPLASMAFORMAGNETIZEDTARGETFUSIONATLOSALAMOSNATIONALLABORATORY
• THE MAGO SYSTEM: CURRENT STATUS
• PHYSICAL SCHEMES OF EXPERIMENTAL DEVICES WITH DISK EMG FOR FEASIBILITY STUDY OF THERMONUCLEAR IGNITION IN MAGO SYSTEM
• NEW CONSERVED QUANTITIES AROUND A MAGNETIC SURFACES FOR PLASMA EQUILIBRIUM WITH NON-LINEAR CONVECTIVE TERMS AND LOW VORTICITY: A REVIEW
• CELEBRATION OF FUSION DAY
• PROSPECTS FOR MAGNETO-INERTIAL FUSION USING THE ATLAS FACILITY AT THE NEVADA TEST SITE
• LASER - MAGNETIZED PLASMA INTERACTION - TOWARD A FEW HUNDREDS eV SOLID DENSITY PLASMA IN THE LABORATORY
• RECENT COMPACT TORUS INJECTION EXPERIMENTS ON THE STOR-M TOKAMAK
• FUELLING REQUIREMENTS FOR ADVANCED TOKAMAK OPERATION
• NEOCLASSICAL COLLISION TRANSPORT IN TOKAMAKS FOR ELLIPTIC PLASMAS WITH TRIANGULARITY: A REVIEW
• NEW REGIME IN TCABR TOKAMAK: RUNAWAY ELECTRON AVALANCHE IN COLD RECOMBINATIVE PLASMA
• CURRENT STATUS OF FAST IGNITION RESEARCH USING A LONG PULSE LASER FOR IMPLOSION AND A PW LASER FOR HEATING
• SINGLE EVENT LASER FUSION SCHEMES USING ns-MJ OR PW-ps LASER PULSES
• PROGRESS IN US FAST IGNITION RESEARCH
• STUDY OF DIPOLE-ASSISTED INERTIAL ELECTROSTATIC CONFINEMENT
• RATIONAL PARADIGM OF PLASMA PHYSICS
• NEW GLANCE AT STATISTICALMECHANICS AND SOME OTHER COMPONENTS OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS
• LOW ENERGY NUCLEAR REACTIONS IN REPRODUCED EXPERIMENTS AND EXPLAINED AS PICOMETER-MEGASECOND REACTIONS
• FROM COLD FUSION TO CONDENSED MATTER NUCLEAR SCIENCE - A CHINESE VIEW ON THE SUMMARY OF CMNS
• INERTIAL FUSION ENERGY RESEARCH PROGRESS IN CHINA
• COMPRESSION OF FUSION TARGETS BY A SPHERICALLY FOCUSED SHOCK WAVE IN A LIQUID
• LASER-PLASMA EXPERIMENT AND PIC–SIMULATION TO STUDY DYNAMICS AND ENERGETICS OF ICF-PLASMA IN A VISTA-TYPE ROCKET WITH DIPOLE MAGNETIC FIELD
• THERMONUCLEAR FUSION, NPT, AND CTBT
• PROGRESS TOWARD FUSION ENERGY WITH DIRECT-DRIVE KRYPTON FLUORIDE LASER DRIVERS
• CONCLUDING REMARKS
• REPORT OF THE REVIEW PANEL OF SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS
• BIOGRAPHIES OF THE MEMBERS OF THE PANEL OF SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS
• LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
• INDEX
• Back cover