• Heavy ion fusion is a fusion energy concept that uses a stream of high-energy ions from a particle accelerator to rapidly heat and compress a small pellet...
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  • Accelerators for Heavy Ion Fusion at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, presentation by Robert J. Burke on "Single Pass Heavy Ion Fusion". The Accelerator...
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    binding energy per nucleon. Fusion of nuclei lighter than these releases energy (an exothermic process), while the fusion of heavier nuclei results in energy...
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  • Commercial Fusion is a term used to refer to privately owned companies whose aim is to sell electricity produced by nuclear fusion. The industry now consists...
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  • of muon-catalyzed fusion other than Vesman's 1967 prediction of the hyperfine resonant formation of the muonic (d–μ–t)+ molecular ion which was subsequently...
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    Laser Fusion Energy Development Plan Institute of Laser Engineering Osaka University Laser Inertial-Confinement Fusion-Fission Energy Heavy Ion Fusion...
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    Z Pulsed Power Facility (category Inertial confinement fusion)
    far from having the required power, the main approach considered was heavy ion fusion (HIF). However major advances such as Q-switching and mode-locking...
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  • fusion occurs. Drivers that have been explored are solid-state lasers, excimer lasers, high velocity solid objects, X-rays, beams of ions (heavy ion fusion...
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  • direct drive Inertial confinement fusion - indirect drive Inertial confinement fusion - Fast Ignition Heavy ion fusion (HIF, HIFAR Lawrence Berkeley) MAGLIF:...
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    to form a heavier nucleus, while releasing energy. Devices designed to harness this energy are known as fusion reactors. Research into fusion reactors...
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  • a fusion reactor using an electric and magnetic field to heat ions to fusion conditions. The design is related to the fusor, the high beta fusion reactor...
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  • SHIP, the 'Separator of Heavy Ion Reaction Products'. He was the driving force in the discovery of the cold heavy ion fusion and the discovery of the...
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    electromagnetism. In most fusion concepts, the energy needed to overcome the Coulomb barrier is provided by collisions with other fuel ions. In a thermalized...
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    electrical (e.g. ion) propulsion with electric power generated by fusion instead of direct thrust. Spacecraft propulsion methods such as ion thrusters require...
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    electrons or ions across a potential well, beyond which the potential drops and the particles continue to move due to their inertia. Fusion occurs in this...
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    high-energy physics. The primary focus of this field is the study of heavy-ion collisions, as compared to lighter atoms in other particle accelerators...
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    Fusor (category Fusion reactors)
    a device that uses an electric field to heat ions to a temperature in which they undergo nuclear fusion. The machine induces a potential difference between...
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  • on two or more intersecting beams of fusion fuel ions that are independently accelerated to fusion energies using a variety of particle accelerator designs...
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    problems of heavy ion fusion and the related studies of extreme states of matter under the impact of concentrated energy fluxes of heavy ions on the dense...
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    Some accelerator-based neutron generators induce fusion between beams of deuterium and/or tritium ions and metal hydride targets which also contain these...
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    Tokamak (redirect from Tokamak fusion)
    caused by an electrical short. Positively charged ions and negatively charged electrons in a fusion plasma are at very high temperatures, and have correspondingly...
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  • fully ionized. The ions are positively charged, so they repel each other due to the electrostatic force. Fusion occurs when two ions collide at high energy...
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  • In high-energy nuclear physics, strangeness production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions is a signature and diagnostic tool of quark–gluon plasma (QGP)...
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  • Pycnonuclear fusion (Ancient Greek: πυκνός, romanized: pyknós, lit. 'dense, compact, thick') is a type of nuclear fusion reaction which occurs due to...
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  • found in the universe consists of highly charged ions. High temperature plasmas used for nuclear fusion energy research also contain HCI generated by the...
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    An ion source is a device that creates atomic and molecular ions. Ion sources are used to form ions for mass spectrometers, optical emission spectrometers...
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  • high-temperature fusion plasma over the 100 million degrees Celsus based on the integrated real-time RMP control for ELM-less H-mode, i.e. fast ions regulated...
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    ions is less than  H+ ions would be for light water at the same temperature. The same is true of OD− vs.  OH− ions. For heavy water Kw D2O (25.0 °C)...
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    damage can be produced. When the ion is heavy and energetic enough, and the material is dense, the collisions between the ions may occur so near to each other...
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    Magnetic confinement fusion (MCF) is an approach to generate thermonuclear fusion power that uses magnetic fields to confine fusion fuel in the form of...
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