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The energy that can, in principle, be obtained from the fusion of hydrogen (actually deuterium) in seawater would provide an energy many orders of magnitude greater than that in all fossil fuels combined. Unfortunately, harnessing fusion for commercial power production has proven elusive. One approach is based on trying to scale down thermonuclear explosions to a sufficiently small size that can be routinely used in a power plant. In such a process the inertia of the fuel itself provides the confinement necessary to maintain the thermonuclear reaction for long enough for more energy to be produced than was needed to start the reaction: hence the name "Inertial-Confinement Fusion".
| ISBN | 156396662X | | Pages | 225 | | ISBN13 | 9781563966620
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 001 | | Publisher | American Institute of Physics | | Weight (grammes) | 680 | | Imprint | American Institute of Physics | | Published in | New York | | Format | Hardback | | Series title | AIP-Press S. | | Publication date | 31 May 1998 | | Height (mm) | 244 | | Library of Congress | QC791.775. | | Width (mm) | 186 | | DEWEY | 621.484 | | Spine width (mm) | 17 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly |
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| | | Foreword by Ronald C. Davidson | | | | | | Preface | | | | | | Acknowledgments | | | | Ch. 1 | | ICF Overview | | 1 | | Ch. 2 | | Historical Development of the Indirect Drive in the U.S. ICF Program | | 16 | | Ch. 3 | | Ignition Physics | | 39 | | Ch. 4 | | Pulse Shaping | | 46 | | Ch. 5 | | Implosion Dynamics | | 53 | | Ch. 6 | | Hydrodynamic Instability, Ignition Threshold, and Capsule Gain | | 61 | | Ch. 7 | | Hohlraum Coupling Efficiency | | 83 | | Ch. 8 | | Hohlraum Radiation Uniformity | | 103 | | Ch. 9 | | Combined Tests of Symmetry and Hydrodynamic Instability | | 130 | | Ch. 10 | | Hohlraum Plasma Conditions | | 135 | | Ch. 11 | | Hot Electron Preheat | | 153 | | Ch. 12 | | National Ignition Facility And Ignition Targets | | 156 | | Ch. 13 | | Inertial Fusion Energy | | 180 | | | | References | | 187 |
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