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Pulsed nuclear reactors in nuclear-pumped laser research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2009

Alexei M. Voinov
Alexei M. Voinov
Affiliation:
All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics, 607200 Arzamas, Nizhni Novgorod Region, Russia
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Abstract

An overview of nuclear-pumped laser programs conducted on various pulsed reactor types has been presented. The independent research undertaken in Russia and the United States have confirmed the concept of energy conversion from nuclear exothermal reactions to coherent optical radiation as feasible.

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Laser and Particle Beams , Volume 11 , Issue 4 , December 1993 , pp. 635 - 644
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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