M. Tobin

TL;DR: In this article, the liquid-wall HYLIFE-II conceptual design has been presented, which has been shown to reduce the electricity cost by using a neutronically thick array of flowing molten-salt jets, which will not burn, has a low tritium solubility and inventory, and protects the chamber walls.

TL;DR: In this paper, a Compact Torus Accelerator (CTA) is used to accelerate a compact torus to 35 MJ kinetic energy which is focused to a 20 mm diameter where its kinetic energy is converted to a shaped x-ray pulse of 30 MJ.

TL;DR: The Laser Megajoule (LMJ) project as mentioned in this paper is an equivalent project in France to the NIF project in USA to achieve ignition of a small amount of DT and to produce fusion energy in a laboratory with a significant gain by imploding small capsules filled with a DT mixture.

TL;DR: The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is a proposed US Department of Energy inertial confinement laser fusion facility as discussed by the authors, which will operate by focusing 192 individual laser beams onto a tiny deuterium-tritium target located at the center of a spherical target chamber.

TL;DR: In this paper, the threat from shrapnel generation on the National Ignition Facility (NIF) first wall, final optics, and ultimately other target chamber components is assessed. But the authors focus on the shrapnel that is in a solid, liquid, or clustered-vapor phase with sufficient velocity to become a threat to exposed surfaces.