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Going Nuclear: Notes from the officially unofficial book tour
I work in the analytical labs at one of Europe’s oldest and largest nuclear sites: Sellafield, in northwestern England. I spend my days at the fume hood front, pipette in one hand and radiation probe in the other (and dosimeter pinned to my chest, of course). Outside the lab, I have a second job: I moonlight as a writer and public speaker. My new popular science book—Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World—came out last summer, and it feels like my life has been running at full power ever since.
L.D. Stewart, E.L. Hubbard
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 21 | Number 3 | May 1992 | Pages 1594-1599
Inertial Fusion Driver | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A29947
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The final drift, compression, and focusing segment of a heavy ion beam (HIB) driven inertial confinement fusion (ICF) reactor delivers the accelerated bunch of ions to the target with the required pulse length and beam spot size, in essence matching the accelerator output parameters to the desired beam parameters at the target. In this paper, we summarize the final drift, compression, and focusing design for the W.J. Shafer Associates (WJSA) Reactor Design Team's OSIRIS1,2 HIB-driven ICF reactor. Our design rearranges the bundle of beams emerging from the linac into two vertical columns, transports each column to a beam compressor, rearranges the columns into large-diameter rings, then focuses each of the beams in the target. Rationale of the design features and description of the beamline elements are given.