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Smarter waste strategies: Helping deliver on the promise of advanced nuclear
At COP28, held in Dubai in 2023, a clear consensus emerged: Nuclear energy must be a cornerstone of the global clean energy transition. With electricity demand projected to soar as we decarbonize not just power but also industry, transport, and heat, the case for new nuclear is compelling. More than 20 countries committed to tripling global nuclear capacity by 2050. In the United States alone, the Department of Energy forecasts that the country’s current nuclear capacity could more than triple, adding 200 GW of new nuclear to the existing 95 GW by mid-century.
James P. Blanchard, Jens Conzen
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 52 | Number 3 | October 2007 | Pages 506-510
Technical Paper | The Technology of Fusion Energy - Inertial Fusion Technology: Targets and Chambers | doi.org/10.13182/FST07-A1539
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
Rapid heating by x-rays and ions in Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) chambers will produce stress waves in dry chamber walls, in some cases leading to damage that will ultimately fail the structure. These waves can affect the surface or propagate to the substrate and produce delamination. Hence, it is important that these waves be understood. Models exist for thermally induced stress waves resulting from surface heating, but models with volumetric heating have not been presented for IFE conditions. In this paper we develop models for elastic stresses caused by rapid volumetric heating in a half-space. The stress wave models are obtained analytically for heating distributions which are both uniform over a finite region and exponentially decaying over the entire depth. These two cases cover the relevant heating for a typical IFE threat. Results are given for both x-ray and ion heating using threats from a direct drive target developed for the High Average Power Laser (HAPL) target.