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Parametric Target Chamber Simulations for the Inertial Fusion Energy Integrated Test Facility

Robert R. Peterson

Fusion Science and Technology / Volume 26 / Number 3P2 / November 1994 / Pages 881-885

Inertial Confinement Fusion Reactor, Reactor Target, and Driver / Proceedings of the Eleventh Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy New Orleans, Louisiana June 19-23, 1994 / dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST94-A40265

The essential physical phenomena that will occur in Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) reactors can be studied in a facility where the driver energy and target yield are reduced. The Integrated Test Facility (ITF) will study reactor relevant phenomena affecting drivers, beam transport, targets, and target chambers. The target chambers for reactors and the ITF could be designed using any one of several target chamber concepts. This paper involves the comparison, with computer simulation, of the phenomena occurring in the target chambers of three power reactor concepts (OSIRIS, HYLIFE-II, and CASCADE) with that occurring in ITF target chambers using the same design concept.