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    LIFE, short for Laser Inertial Fusion Energy, was a fusion energy effort run at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory between 2008 and 2013. LIFE aimed...
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    Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is a fusion energy process that initiates nuclear fusion reactions by compressing and heating targets filled with fuel...
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    00F103. PMID 26560597. "Krypton Fluoride (KrF) Laser Driver for Inertial Fusion Energy" "New record for fusion". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
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  • star building a fusion reactor". Retrieved 2017-08-21. Obenschain, Stephen, et al. "High-energy krypton fluoride lasers for inertial fusion." Applied optics...
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  • Inertial Fusion Energy is a proposed approach to building a nuclear fusion power plant based on performing inertial confinement fusion at industrial scale...
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  • intense laser radiation with matter. Scientific experiments at the facility emphasize inertial confinement, direct drive, laser-induced fusion, fundamental...
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    James; Karasik, Max; et al. (19 August 2015). "High-energy krypton fluoride lasers for inertial fusion". Applied Optics. 54 (31): F103-22. Bibcode:2015ApOpt...
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  • Magneto-inertial fusion (MIF) describes a class of fusion power devices that combine aspects of magnetic confinement fusion and inertial confinement fusion in...
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    density to undergo fusion burn, releasing energy. MagLIF has characteristics of both inertial confinement fusion (due to the use of a laser and pulsed compression)...
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    Aneutronic fusion is any form of fusion power in which very little of the energy released is carried by neutrons. While the lowest-threshold nuclear fusion reactions...
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    National Ignition Facility (category Inertial confinement fusion research lasers)
    The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is a laser-based inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research device, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory...
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    an inertial confinement facility, reached Q = 1.54 with a 3.15 MJ output from a 2.05 MJ laser heating, which remains the record for any fusion scheme...
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  • US-ERDA's Office of Inertial Fusion, announced the conclusion was "no showstoppers" on the road to fusion energy. The two beam Argus laser is completed at...
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  • plasma Inertial confinement fusion Laser Mégajoule Timeline of nuclear fusion Chandler, David L. (10 May 2010). "New project aims for fusion ignition"...
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    high-power laser built at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California, United States, in 1984 which conducted advanced inertial confinement...
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    inertial confinement fusion. Janus was built using about 100 pounds of Nd:glass laser material. Initially, Janus was only capable of producing laser pulses...
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  • Laser Mégajoule (LMJ) is a large laser-based inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research device near Bordeaux, France, built by the French nuclear science...
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  • small pellet of fusion fuel. It is a subclass of the larger inertial confinement fusion (ICF) approach, replacing the more typical laser systems with an...
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    John; Weaver, James; Karasik, Max (2015). "High-energy krypton fluoride lasers for inertial fusion". Applied Optics. 54 (31): F103-22. Bibcode:2015ApOpt...
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    investigations into inertial confinement fusion. By using a KrF laser with induced spatial incoherence (ISI) optical smoothing, the modulations in the laser focal profile...
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    thermonuclear fusion in 1958, but the technology is still in its developmental phase. The US National Ignition Facility, which uses laser-driven inertial confinement...
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  • Hohlraum (category Inertial confinement fusion)
    Hohlraums are used in High Energy Density Physics (HEDP) and Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) experiments to convert laser energy to thermal x-rays for imploding...
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  • Magnetized target fusion (MTF) is a fusion power concept that combines features of magnetic confinement fusion (MCF) and inertial confinement fusion (ICF). Like...
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    more widely studied magnetic confinement fusion (i.e. good energy confinement) and inertial confinement fusion (i.e. efficient compression heating and...
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    National Laboratory in 1977 for the study of inertial confinement fusion (ICF) and long-scale-length laser-plasma interactions. Presumably, the device...
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    metal parts. Also known as direct metal laser sintering (DMLS), the ASTM standard term is powder bed fusion (PBF). PBF is a rapid prototyping, 3D printing...
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  • investigation into inertial confinement fusion, high energy density physics and nuclear weapons research. The Russian laser fusion program was first initiated...
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    replacing the banks of hundreds of lasers currently employed in inertial confinement fusion experiments. Space-based X-ray lasers pumped by nuclear explosions...
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    Inertial Fusion Experiment". Phys. Rev. Lett. 132 (6): 065102. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.065102. Duarte FJ, ed. (2009). "Chapter 9". Tunable Laser Applications...
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    The High Power laser Energy Research facility (HiPER), is a proposed experimental laser-driven inertial confinement fusion (ICF) device undergoing preliminary...
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