20th European Fusion Theory Conference 2-5 October 2023, Padova - Italy

Session

Oral session 5 - Inertial fusion confinement scaling

3 Oct 2023, 09:00

Sala Rossini (Caffè Pedrocchi)

Conveners

Oral session 5 - Inertial fusion confinement scaling: O5

• Chair: Per Helander

99. Nuclear fusion with lasers: On the recent breakthrough at the NIF to a new European pathway for laser fusion (I.1)

luca volpe (ETSIAE Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Centro de Laseres Pulsados (CLPU), Salamanca, Spain)

03/10/2023, 09:00

Invited

Inertial Fusion Energy production using lasers represents a key approach to nuclear fusion energy on earth. The concept of laser-driven Inertial Confinement thermonuclear Fusion (ICF) was proposed in 1972 in seminal papers by American and Russian scientists [Basov1972, Nuckolls1972], which initiated a worldwide effort to demonstrate inertial fusion in the laboratory. After five decades of...

6. H-Mode Confinement in Tokamaks with Fully Metallic Walls: New Energy Confinement Scaling and Implications of the Reduced Size Dependence (I.5)

Prof. Geert Verdoolaege (Ghent University)

03/10/2023, 09:50

Invited

Global energy confinement studies based on empirical scaling expressions represent an important instrument for benchmarking experiments in tokamaks and stellarators, for specification of boundary conditions in modeling activities, for guiding the development of theoretical models of heat transport and for extrapolating plasma performance to new machines, such as ITER.

In this contribution,...