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Recent years have seen growing global interest in nuclear energy and rising confidence in the sector. For the first time since the early 2000s, there is renewed optimism about the industry’s future. This change is driven by several major factors: geopolitical developments that highlight the need for secure energy supplies, a stronger focus on resilient energy systems, national commitments to decarbonization, and rising demand for clean and reliable electricity.
Naeem A. Tahir, Dieter H. H. Hoffmann
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 33 | Number 2 | March 1998 | Pages 164-170
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A26
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Various aspects of burn of advanced fuel inertial fusion targets are discussed, including pure deuterium as well as D-3He targets. In the case of deuterium fuel, the mass of tritium and 3He created in D-D reactions is calculated as a function of the fuel R, keeping the fuel mass constant (20 mg). It has been found that as the fuel R is varied from 40 to 80 g/cm2, the burn of 3He increases from 20 to 75%, whereas 95% of the tritium is consumed during the burn. An ignition temperature of 5 keV is considered in these calculations. It has also been found that introduction of a small fraction of tritium atoms (1%) uniformly distributed in the deuterium fuel allows a reduction in ignition temperature by more than a factor of 2. In the case of D-3He targets, an ignition temperature of the order of 10 keV is required, but introducing 1% tritium atoms in the fuel allows an ignition temperature of 3 keV.