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Pacific Fusion pulsed-power facility to host external users
Concept art of Pacific Fusion’s demonstration system. (Image: Pacific Fusion)
Pacific Fusion is preparing to start construction on a pulsed-power inertial fusion facility in New Mexico, and today the company announced it is seeking expressions of interest from researchers in industry, academia, and government who may want to run experiments at the facility.
Alexandre Choux, Lise Barnouin, Ludovic Reverdy, Marc Theobald
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 73 | Number 2 | March 2018 | Pages 127-131
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2017.1406247
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Targets experimented on the Laser Megajoule (LMJ) facility are composed of amorphous hydrogenated carbon capsules. Some of them present rippled surface features like sinusoidal functions. Other experimented targets are hohlraum-containing capsules. The main difficulty when analyzing the machined capsules is to characterize the feature’s orientation and the sinusoidal shape featured in the capsule thickness by laser machining. For the capsule enclosed by the hohlraum, the main challenge is to characterize the capsule centering inside the assembled hohlraum. X-ray tomography is used to realize measurement, and obtained results are presented in this paper.