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Inertial Fusion Energy

Building on the Achievement of Fusion Ignition to Power America


Artist's rendition of an Inertial Fusion Energy Power Plant. Download High
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Fusion has the potential to provide a reliable, abundant, safe, and clean energy
source. Repeated achievement of fusion ignition at the National Ignition
Facility (NIF) as part of the U.S. Department of Energy/National Nuclear
Security Administration’s Stockpile Stewardship Program has also established the
fundamental scientific feasibility of laser driven inertial confinement fusion
as a path toward fusion energy.

To move from successful fusion ignition in laboratory experiments to commercial
power plants, significant engineering and technical advances are needed.
Stockpile stewardship experiments conducted at NIF, located at Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, are providing critical data that also helps to
establish the technology basis for a viable development path toward
laser-powered inertial fusion energy (IFE).


LASER FUSION

A virtually limitless, clean energy source

A laser fusion power plant would look different than NIF. It would use
high-power lasers to create continuous fusion ignition reactions from a steady
stream of targets containing hydrogen fuel pellets. These pellets, which contain
the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium, would be fired into the plant at a
rate of about 600 per minute. The plant’s lasers would precisely converge on
each target, causing the fuel to ignite and give off more energy than went in.
That excess energy could then be converted into a clean, abundant source of
electricity when connected to the power grid. Laser fusion power plants would
likely be about the size of a small football stadium, and just one could meet
most of the electricity needs of a major American city.




 

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