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Preparations for a European R&D roadmap for an inertial fusion demo reactor

Abstract:
A European consortium of 15 laboratories across nine nations have worked together under the EUROFusion Enabling Research grants for the past decade with three principle objectives. These are: (a) investigating obstacles to ignition on megaJoule-class laser facilities; (b) investigating novel alternative approaches to ignition, including basic studies for fast ignition (both electron and ion-driven), auxiliary heating, shock ignition, etc.; and (c) developing technologies that will be required in the future for a fusion reactor. A brief overview of these activities, presented here, along with new calculations relates the concept of auxiliary heating of inertial fusion targets, and provides possible future directions of research and development for the updated European Roadmap that is due at the end of 2020.
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Published
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10.1098/rsta.2020.0005

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
Sub department:
Atomic & Laser Physics
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Author
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0000-0002-5539-9464
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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
Sub department:
Atomic & Laser Physics
Role:
Author
More by this author
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
Role:
Author
More by this author
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Physics
Sub department:
Atomic & Laser Physics
Role:
Author


Publisher:
The Royal Society
Journal:
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences More from this journal
Volume:
379
Article number:
20200005
Publication date:
2020-12-07
Acceptance date:
2020-07-14
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EISSN:
1471-2962
ISSN:
1364-503X


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English
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1124845
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pubs:1124845
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2020-08-10

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