https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-023-02361-4
Demonstration of a hydrodynamically equivalent burning plasma in direct-drive inertial confinement fusion
In addition, we hydro-equivalently scale the results to the 2.15 MJ of laser energy available at the National Ignition Facility and find that these implosions reach 86% of the Lawson parameter required for ignition. Our results support direct-drive inertial confinement fusion as a credible approach for achieving thermonuclear ignition and net energy in laser fusion.
So Rochester can beat NIF at 10 to 100 teams cheaper? ...that is brutal.
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They seem to be saying that direct-drive might be someday workable using NIF, not that it is workable at much lower powers. NIF currently uses an indirect drive.
Direct-drive systems suffer from parametric instabilities.
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