How Ignition and Target Gain > 1 Was Achieved in Inertial Fusion
How Ignition and Target Gain > 1 Was Achieved in Inertial Fusion
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For many decades the running joke in fusion re-search has been that `fusion’ is twenty years away and always will be. Yet, this year we find ourselves in a position where we can talk about the milestones of burning plasmas, fusion igni-tion, and target energy gain greater than unity in the past tense – a situation that is remarka-ble! In this talk, I tell the story of the applied physics challenges that needed to be overcome to achieve these milestones and the strategy our team followed. To help understand the story, several key physics principles of inertial fusion will be presented, and I will try and dispel any confusion about what the terms burning, ignition, and gain mean in the context of iner-tial fusion research.
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- Date: 08 Mar 2023
- Time: 03:30 PM to 04:30 PM
- All times are (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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- 1221 Beal Ave
- University of Michigan
- Ann Arbor, Michigan
- United States 48109
- Building: Lurie Engineering Center
- Room Number: 3213 (Johnson Rooms)
- Starts 06 March 2023 09:11 AM
- Ends 08 March 2023 04:30 PM
- All times are (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
- No Admission Charge
Speakers
Dr. Omar Hurrican of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
How Ignition and Target Gain > 1 Was Achieved in Inertial Fusion
For many decades the running joke in fusion re-search has been that `fusion’ is twenty years away and always will be. Yet, this year we find ourselves in a position where we can talk about the milestones of burning plasmas, fusion ignition, and target energy gain greater than unity in the past tense – a situation that is remarkable! In this talk, I tell the story of the applied physics challenges that needed to be overcome to achieve these milestones and the strategy our team followed. To help understand the story, several key physics principles of inertial fusion will be presented, and I will try and dispel any confusion about what the terms burning, ignition, and gain mean in the context of inertial fusion research.
Biography:
Omar Hurricane is Chief Scientist for the inertial confinement fusion program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a position he’s held since 2014. Omar completed his PhD in Physics at UCLA in 1994 where he remained as a postdoc doing plasma theory until 1998. In 2009, Omar was awarded the Department of Energy E.O. Lawrence Award for National Security and Nonproliferation for solving a long-standing nuclear weapons anomaly. More recently, Omar has been recognized for his contributions to inertial confinement fusion with Fellowship in the American Physical Society (APS), the 2021 Edward Teller Award of the American Nuclear Society, and the 2022 John Dawson Award from Excellence in Plasma Physics of the APS for achieving the first laboratory burning plasma.
Agenda
3:30 pm Introduction
3:35 pm Start of talk
4:30 pm event ends
ALL times are in EST/EDT
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