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  • 19 - Inertial confinement fusion implosion

  • from Part 3 - From the Microscopic to Cosmic Scales
  • Ye Zhou, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California
  • Book:
    Hydrodynamic Instabilities and Turbulence
    Published online:
    27 June 2024
    Print publication:
    30 November 2024, pp 385-406

  • Summary

    Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) recently became the first technology to achieve ignition of hydrogen nuclear fusion fuel in the laboratory. Unlike magnetically confined fusion plasmas such as tokamaks, ICF requires high fuel compression. This implies a high convergence and high velocity implosion, usually driven with laser beams. This allows hydrodynamic instabilities to develop, primarily RTI and RMI. During the initial shock and acceleration phase when the shell is brought up to the peak implosion velocity, RMI instabilities at the various interfaces are followed by ablation front RT growth as the low-density plasma accelerates the dense shell of solid ablator and fuel. The implosion deceleration at the center is also unstable. The resulting spikes and bubbles prevent efficient fuel compression, and can also inject contaminants. I will discuss the measurement and mitigation of this problem. Z-pinch machines, which instead use an electrical current to compress the plasma, will illustrate the role of MHD in the ICF application.