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Summary
The stages of inertial confinement fusion:
- Laser beams or laser-produced X-rays rapidly heat the surface of the fusion target, forming a surrounding plasma envelope.
- Fuel is compressed by the rocket-like blowoff of the hot surface material.
- During the final part of the capsule implosion, the fuel core reaches 20 times the density of lead and ignites at 100,000,000 ˚C.
- Thermonuclear burn spreads rapidly through the compressed fuel, yielding many times the input energy.
The blue arrows represent radiation; orange is blowoff; purple is inwardly transported thermal energy.
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| current | 17:16, 12 January 2017 | | 740 × 210 (80 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <p>The stages of inertial confinement fusion: </p> <ol> <li> Laser beams or laser-produced X-rays rapidly heat the surface of the fusion target, forming a surrounding plasma envelope.</li> <li> Fuel is compressed by the rocket-like blowoff of the hot surface material.</li> <li> During the final part of the capsule implosion, the fuel core reaches 20 times the density of lead and ignites at 100,000,000 ˚C.</li> <li> Thermonuclear burn spreads rapidly through the compressed fuel, yielding many times the input energy.</li> </ol> <p>The blue arrows represent radiation; orange is blowoff; purple is inwardly transported thermal energy. </p> |
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