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Appendix G: Glossary and Acronyms
Pages 204-209

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... Blanket: Section of the reactor chamber that serves as the heat transfer medium for the fusion reactor chamber. Some blanket concepts incorporate materials for tritium breeding as well as cooling.
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From page 205...
... Gain: Ratio of the fusion energy released by the target to the driver energy applied to the target in a single explosion. Heavy-ion fusion: ICF technique whereby ions of heavy elements are accelerated and directed onto a target.
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... Inertial fusion energy: Concept whereby ICF is used to predictably and continu ously initiate fusion chain reactions that yield more energy than that incident on the fuel from the driver for the ultimate purpose of producing electrical power.
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... ACRONYMS APG advanced phosphate glass AWE Atomic Weapons Establishment BOP balance of plant CEA Commissariat à l'energie atomique CELIA Centre lasers intenses et applications COE cost of electricity CPA chirped-pulse amplification CPP continuous-phase plate CVD chemical vapor deposition D deuterium DD (drive context) direct drive DEMO demonstration plant DOE Department of Energy DPSSL diode-pumped solid-state laser DT deuterium-tritium ELI Extreme Light Infrastructure ETF engineering test facility FAIR Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research
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From page 208...
... 208 An Assessment of the Prospects for Inertial Fusion Energy FESAC Fusion Energy Sciences Advisory Committee FLiBe fluorine-lithium-beryllium FTF Fusion Test Facility GDP glow discharge polymer HAPL High Average Power Laser HCX High-Current Experiment HIF heavy-ion fusion HIFTF Heavy-Ion Fusion Test Facility HIF-VL Heavy-Ion Fusion Virtual Laboratory HI-IFE Heavy-Ion Inertial Fusion Energy HiPER High-Power Laser Energy Research HLW high-level waste ICF inertial confinement fusion ID indirect drive IFE inertial fusion energy i-LIFT Laboratory Inertial Fusion Test IRE integrated research experiment ISI incoherent spatial imaging ITER International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor KDP potassium dihydrogen phosphate LANL Los Alamos National Laboratory LBNL Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory LDRD laboratory-directed research and development LIFE laser inertial fusion energy LIL Ligne d'Integration Laser LLE Laboratory for Laser Energetics LLNL Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory LLW low-level waste LMJ Laser MégaJoule (project) LPI laser–plasma interactions/instabilities LTD linear transformer driver LULI Laboratoire pour l'utilisation des lasers intenses LWR light water reactor MagLIF magnetized liner inertial fusion MFE magnetic fusion energy
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... A pp e n d i x G 209 MTF Magnetized Target Fusion NCDX-II neutralized drift compression experiment II NGNP next-generation nuclear plant NIC National Ignition Campaign NIF National Ignition Facility NNSA National Nuclear Security Administration NRC National Research Council NRL Naval Research Laboratory OFES Office of Fusion Energy Sciences PALS Prague Asterisk Laser System PDD polar direct drive PETAL PETawatt Aquitaine Laser PP pulsed power PPPL Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory RF radio frequency RTL recyclable transmission line SAC science advisory committee SAL specific activity limit SBS stimulated Brillouin scattering SNL Sandia National Laboratories SRS stimulated Raman scattering SSD smoothing by spectral dispersion T tritium TA technology application TBM test blanket module TPD two-plasmon decay TRL technology readiness level TWAC TeraWatt ACcelerator UV ultraviolet VLT Virtual Laboratory for Technology YAG yttrium-aluminum-garnet
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Key Terms

  • inertial fusion
  • technique whereby
  • icf technique
  • fuel capsule
  • fusion reactor

  • fusion reactions
  • test facility
  • reactor chamber
  • driver energy
  • inertial confinement

  • confinement fusion
  • laser energy
  • energy released
  • energy strikes
  • magnetized target

  • electrical power
  • energy applied
  • lasers intenses
  • driver delivers
  • initiate fusion

  • energy conversion
  • target fusion
  • fusion chain
  • external energy
  • incident energy

  • engineering test
  • delivers energy
  • whereby icf
  • driver output
  • colder target


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