Laser Compression of Matter to Super-High Densities: Thermonuclear (CTR) Applications
Abstract
Hydrogen may be compressed to more than 10,000 times liquid density by an implosion system energized by a high energy laser. This scheme makes possible efficient thermonuclear burn of small pellets of heavy hydrogen isotopes, and makes feasible fusion power reactors using practical lasers.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- September 1972
- DOI:
- 10.1038/239139a0
- Bibcode:
- 1972Natur.239..139N