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Open AccessThe impact of low-mode symmetry on inertial fusion energy output in the burning plasma state
Indirect Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion Experiments on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) have achieved a burning plasma state with neutron yields exceeding 170 kJ, roughly 3 times the prior record and a ...
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Open AccessPublisher Correction: Burning plasma achieved in inertial fusion
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Open AccessDesign of inertial fusion implosions reaching the burning plasma regime
In a burning plasma state1–7, alpha particles from deuterium–tritium fusion reactions redeposit their energy and are the dominant source of heating. This state has recently been achieved at the US National Igniti...
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Open AccessBurning plasma achieved in inertial fusion
Obtaining a burning plasma is a critical step towards self-sustaining fusion energy1. A burning plasma is one in which the fusion reactions themselves are the primary source of heating in the plasma, which is nec...
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Plasma stop**-power measurements reveal transition from non-degenerate to degenerate plasmas
Physically realized electron gas systems usually reside in either the quantum non-degenerate or fully degenerate limit, where the average de Broglie wavelength of the thermal electrons becomes comparable with ...
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Inertially confined fusion plasmas dominated by alpha-particle self-heating
Alpha-particle self-heating, the process of deuterium–tritium fusion reaction products depositing their kinetic energy locally within a fusion reaction region and thus increasing the temperature in the reactin...
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Correction: Corrigendum: Inertial-confinement fusion with lasers
Nature Physics 12, 435–448 (2016); published online 3 May 2016; corrected after print 1 June 2016. In the version of this Review Article originally published, the size of the gold hohlraum described in the sec...
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Inertial-confinement fusion with lasers
The quest for controlled fusion energy has been ongoing for over a half century. The demonstration of ignition and energy gain from thermonuclear fuels in the laboratory has been a major goal of fusion researc...
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Correction: Corrigendum: Fuel gain exceeding unity in an inertially confined fusion implosion
Nature 506, 343–348 (2014); doi:10.1038/nature13008 In the legend to Fig. 2 of this Letter, we should have acknowledged the X-ray and neutron imaging as follows: X-ray image analysis1,2 was performed by N. Izu...
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Fuel gain exceeding unity in an inertially confined fusion implosion
Fusion fuel gains greater than unity — which are crucial to the generation of fusion energy — are achieved on the US National Ignition Facility using the ‘high-foot’ implosion method, which reduces instability...
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Open AccessBlast-wave driven Kelvin-Helmholtz shear layers in a laser driven high-energy-density plasma
The first successful high energy density Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) shear layer experiments (O.A. Hurricane et al. in Phys. Plasmas, 16:056305, 2009; E.C. Harding et al. in Phys. Rev. Lett., 103:045005, 2009) demonstr...
