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As most attendees of this year’s ANS Annual Conference left breakfast in the Grand Ballroom of the Chicago Downtown Marriott to sit in on presentations covering everything from career pathways in fusion to recently digitized archival nuclear films, 40 of them made their way to the hotel’s fifth floor to take part in the second offering of Nuclear 101, a newly designed certification course that seeks to give professionals who are in or adjacent to the industry an in-depth understanding of the essentials of nuclear energy and engineering from some of the field’s leading experts.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 3 | Number 3 | May 1983 | Pages 416-431
Technical Paper | ICF Driver Technology | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A20865
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We analyzed several properties of an electron neutralized light ion beam that is radially and longitudinally collapsing as it propagates through a diffuse background gas. Considerations of both equilibrium and stability suggest that if such a beam can be produced with an initial effective emittance of ∼2 × 10−4 cm⋅rad, and is neutralized to one part in 106, then it could be propagated through a background pressure of order 10−5 Torr, compressed by a factor of 2 − 105, and deliver of order 1013 W/cm2 on a 0.1-cm-radius target; hence, it could form an economical driver for a pellet fusion system.
