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inertial confinement
(redirected from Inertial confinement fusion)

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inertial confinement [in′ər·shəl kən′fīn·mənt]
(nucleonics)
The rapid implosion of a high-density pellet, under bombardment by laser or charged-particle beams, to produce a core that is heated to extremely high temperatures before it can fly apart; proposed as a method for generating power from controlled thermonuclear reactions.


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The bill provides appropriations for the Department of Energy including funding for the Office of Fusion Energy Sciences (OFES) and the Inertial Confinement Fusion and High Yield Campaign (ICF).
of Cologne, Germany) presents a general overview of the processes involved in inertial confinement fusion so that newcomers to the field will not have to piece together the fundamentals from the fragments they are exposed to at conferences.
Earlier this year, this giant accelerator produced an ion bema of record intensity, an important milestone on the road to inertial confinement fusion.
 
 
 
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