Preparations for a European R&D roadmap for an inertial fusion demo reactor

P. A. Norreys; L. Ceurvorst; J. D. Sadler; B. T. Spiers; R. Aboushelbaya; M. W. Mayr; R. Paddock; N. Ratan; A. F. Savin; R. H. W. Wang; K. Glize; R. M. G. M. Trines; R. Bingham; M. P. Hill; N. Sircombe; M. Ramsay; P. Allan; L. Hobbs; S. James; J. Skidmore; J. Fyrth; J. Luis; E. Floyd; C. Brown; B. M. Haines; R. E. Olson; S. A. Yi; A. B. Zylstra; K. Flippo; P. A. Bradley; R. R. Peterson; J. L. Kline; R. J. Leeper

doi:10.1098/rsta.2020.0005

Preparations for a European R&D roadmap for an inertial fusion demo reactor

P. A. Norreys^*
, L. Ceurvorst
, J. D. Sadler
, B. T. Spiers
, R. Aboushelbaya
, M. W. Mayr
, R. Paddock
, N. Ratan
, A. F. Savin
, R. H. W. Wang
, K. Glize
, R. M. G. M. Trines
, R. Bingham
, M. P. Hill
, N. Sircombe
, M. Ramsay
, P. Allan
, L. Hobbs
, S. James
, J. Skidmore

J. Fyrth, J. Luis, E. Floyd, C. Brown, B. M. Haines, R. E. Olson, S. A. Yi, A. B. Zylstra, K. Flippo, P. A. Bradley, R. R. Peterson, J. L. Kline, R. J. Leeper

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A European consortium of 15 laboratories across nine nations have worked together under the EUROFusion Enabling Research grants for the past decade with three principle objectives. These are: (a) investigating obstacles to ignition on megaJoule-class laser facilities; (b) investigating novel alternative approaches to ignition, including basic studies for fast ignition (both electron and ion-driven), auxiliary heating, shock ignition, etc.; and (c) developing technologies that will be required in the future for a fusion reactor. A brief overview of these activities, presented here, along with new calculations relates the concept of auxiliary heating of inertial fusion targets, and provides possible future directions of research and development for the updated European Roadmap that is due at the end of 2020. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue 'Prospects for high gain inertial fusion energy (part 2)'.

Original language	English
Article number	20200005
Number of pages	12
Journal	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
Volume	379
Issue number	2189
Early online date	7 Dec 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2020.0005
Publication status	Published - 25 Jan 2021

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Data accessibility. This article has no additional data. Authors’ contributions. P.A.N. authored the manuscript. B.T.S. provided assistance in typesetting. Competing interests. The authors declare that they have no competing interests. Funding. This work has been carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium and has received funding from the Euratom research and training programme 2014-2018 and 2019-2020 under Grant No. 633053. The views and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of the European Commission. The authors acknowledge the support of the Plasma HEC Consortium, EPSRC grant nos. EP/L000237/11 and EP/R029148/1. Los Alamos National Laboratory is operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC for the US Department of Energy NNSA under Contract No. DE-AC52-06NA25396. PAN acknowledges the William Penney Fellowship at AWE plc and support from OxCHEDS. Acknowledgements. The authors thank all of the staff of the UKRI-STFC Central Laser Facility at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and the ORION laser facility at AWE plc. The authors acknowledge useful discussions with C. Joshi, C. Li, L.O. Silva, M. Koepke, G. Gregori, J.S. Wark, C.N. Danson and H.S. McLean.

Keywords

auxiliary heating
fast ignition
high-energy density plasma physics
IFE Roadmap
inertial confinement fusion
inertial fusion energy

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Norreys, P. A., Ceurvorst, L., Sadler, J. D., Spiers, B. T., Aboushelbaya, R., Mayr, M. W., Paddock, R., Ratan, N., Savin, A. F., Wang, R. H. W., Glize, K., Trines, R. M. G. M., Bingham, R., Hill, M. P., Sircombe, N., Ramsay, M., Allan, P., Hobbs, L., James, S., ... Leeper, R. J. (2021). Preparations for a European R&D roadmap for an inertial fusion demo reactor. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 379(2189), Article 20200005. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2020.0005

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