An Induction Linac Driven Heavy-Ion Fusion Systems Model

Heavy ion beam propagation through a gas-filled chamber for inertial confinement fusion

“…We can also write where qd is the wall-plug to output driver efficiency, and Pa,, is the amount of recirculating power that is used to drive plant equipment other than the driver. The idea behind any feasible power plant is to reduce the cost of the plant for a given output power, P. Zukerman, et al, (1988) do a detailed study of the cost of a heavyion fu3ion power plant versus various physical parameters. The cost increases as the driver energy, Ed, and the recirculating fraction, fp, are increased; therefore, for fixed .…”

OSIRIS and SOMBRERO Inertial Fusion Power Plant Designs, Volume 2: Designs, Assessments, and Comparisons

“…Under routine daily operation, each of the breeder and helium circuits processes 550 grams of tritium and is expected to release 5.5 Ci/day. In addition, the tritium permeation through the steam generator is 15 Ci/day, giving a total daily routine release [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] .of tritium from the reactor system of 26 Ci. A separate examination of the reactor building showed that each day both the Suilding atmosphere of Xe and the target injector system handle 900 and 1400 grams of tritium, respectively.…”

Heavy ion driven LMF design concept. Revised

“…Here the target is indirectly driven with two-sided illumination. The clusters of ion beams heat a stopping material, and the typical range-energy curves computed (15) for hot (200 eV) Aluminum (Fig. 2) are assumed to be adequate for concept d e f~t i o n .…”