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LOCATION:2241 Chamberlin Hall
SUMMARY:Heavy Ion Fusion: New Paradigm and Strategy to Fit the Technol
 ogy\, Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar\, Dr. Alex T. Burke\
 , Arcata Systems
DESCRIPTION:Heavy Ion Fusion (HIF) burst on the scene in 1976\, based 
 on the insight\, from Al Mashke (Brookhaven) and Ron Martin (Argonne)\
 , that particle accelerator technology had the necessary energy to ign
 ite fusion pellets by driving them with high-energy beams of heavy ion
 s. It became widely recognized that RF accelerators\, because of their
  efficiency\, durability and rep-rate\, have the greatest potential as
  drivers for future inertial fusion power plants. Just as quickly\, in
  1979\, funding of the high-energy physics (HEP) and accelerator commu
 nities to continue HIF development came to a screeching halt. Why did 
 this happen? The best answer is that\, being an ICF (Inertial Confinem
 ent Fusion) technology\, HIF intersected with the classified area of H
 -bombs and therefore fell under the purview of the weapons labs. But H
 IF wasn’t needed for (in fact conflicted with) the mandate of weapon
 s technology and stockpile stewardship\; most of the accelerator and t
 he HEP community is “open” and therefore separate from the classif
 ied world of weapons. Despite a paucity of funding for HIF in the U.S.
  and worldwide\, important technological advances have been made since
  1979 that add more confidence and less risk to HIF\, such as cylindri
 cal fusion pellets with fast ignition\, and the Single-Pass RF Driver 
 concept that eliminates the need for storage rings and greatly increas
 es the brightness of the final beams delivered to the pellet. The attr
 activeness of the physics and economics of large scale HIF leads us to
  consider a new paradigm in the form of very big power plants on the o
 rder of 100GW instead of the canonical 1GW. This implies a new paradig
 m not only for fusion technology but for how society gets energy\, dev
 elops resources and produces raw materials for the economy such as liq
 uid fuel\, electricity\, and water. This talk will concentrate on how 
 private industry can lead the way to such a "game changing" paradigm s
 hift in future energy supplies in the 21st Century.
URL:https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=4784
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