Summary of Opportunities in the Fusion Energy Sciences Program

Cover
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Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee 1998–1999......Page 2
PREFACE......Page 4
Title Page
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CONTENTS......Page 8
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY......Page 10
1.2 The Strategic Role of Fusion Energy Research......Page 12
1.3 Two Pathways to Fusion Energy......Page 13
1.4 The DOE and World Fusion Programs......Page 15
1.5 The Future Program......Page 17
2.1.1 Fusion Fuel Cycles......Page 20
2.1.3 Progress in Fusion Energy Research......Page 21
2.2.1 Introduction......Page 23
2.2.2 Physics of Magnetic Confinement......Page 24
2.2.3 Path to Magnetic Fusion Energy......Page 30
2.2.3.1 Externally Controlled Configurations......Page 31
2.2.3.2 Intermediate Configurations......Page 36
2.2.3.3 Self-Ordered Configurations......Page 37
2.2.3.4 Other Configurations......Page 38
2.2.3.6 The MFE Portfolio......Page 39
2.2.4 Opportunities in MFE......Page 40
2.3.1 Introduction......Page 46
2.3.2.1 Introduction......Page 47
2.3.2.2 Direct and Indirect Drive......Page 49
2.3.2.3 Experimental Progress......Page 51
2.3.2.4 National Ignition Facility......Page 56
2.3.3 An IFE Development Pathway for Lasers and Ion Beams......Page 58
2.3.4.1 Ion Accelerators......Page 60
2.3.4.2 Lasers......Page 63
2.3.5.1 Ion-Beam-Driven Targets......Page 65
2.3.5.2 Laser-Driven Targets......Page 67
2.4.1 Overview and Recent Progress......Page 68
1-MW gyrotron.......Page 70
2.4.2.2 Nuclear Technologies and Safety......Page 72
2.4.3.1 Chamber Approaches......Page 73
2.4.3.2 Targets......Page 76
3.1.2 Conceptual Tools......Page 78
3.2.1 Hamiltonian Dynamics......Page 79
3.2.3 Turbulence......Page 80
3.2.5 Magnetic Reconnection......Page 81
3.2.7 Nonneutral Plasmas......Page 82
3.2.9 Atomic Physics......Page 84
3.2.12 Computer Modeling of Plasma Systems......Page 85
3.2.13 Advanced Computation......Page 86
3.3.1 Bulk Materials Science......Page 87
3.3.3 Heat Transfer at Liquid/Vacuum Interfaces......Page 88
3.3.6 Pebble Bed Thermomechanics......Page 89
4.2.1 Microelectronics and Flat Panel Displays......Page 91
4.2.2 Materials and Manufacturing......Page 93
4.2.3 Environmental Applications......Page 94
4.2.4 Biomedical and Food-Safety Applications......Page 95
4.2.5 Plasma Propulsion......Page 97
LIST OF ACRONYMS......Page 100