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Inhomogeneous mixing of D and T fuels in inertial confinement fusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

Shigeo Kawata
Shigeo Kawata
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka 940–21, Japan
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Abstract

Numerical analyses show that a 40% mixing inhomogeneity of the deuterium (D) and tritium (T) concentrations in a DT pellet still gives a sufficient fusion energy output in DT inertial confinement fusion (ICF), as long as the D and T total amounts are equal. This new result means that fusion energy output is rather insensitive to the inhomogeneous fuel mixing in the DT ICF pellet.

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Research Article
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Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 13 , Issue 3 , September 1995 , pp. 383 - 388
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1995

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