{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["3"],"submitter":["Ross JS"],"pubmed_abstract":["Recent progress towards demonstrating inertial confinement fusion (ICF) ignition at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) has sparked wide interest in Laser Inertial Fusion Energy (LIFE) for carbon-free large-scale power generation. A LIFE-based fleet of power plants promises clean energy generation with no greenhouse gas emissions and a virtually limitless, widely available thermonuclear fuel source. For the LIFE concept to be viable, target costs must be minimized while the target material efficiency or x-ray albedo is optimized. Current ICF targets on the NIF utilize a gold or depleted uranium cylindrical radiation cavity (hohlraum) with a plastic capsule at the center that contains the deuterium and tritium fuel. Here we show a direct comparison of gold and lead hohlraums in efficiently"],"journal":["Scientific reports"],"pagination":["1453"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC3596797"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Lead (Pb) hohlraum: target for inertial fusion energy."],"pmcid":["PMC3596797"],"pubmed_authors":["Dunne M","Meeker D","Glenzer SH","Nikroo A","Moses EI","Ross JS","Atherton LJ","Lindl JD","Wallace R","Amendt P"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Lead (Pb) hohlraum: target for inertial fusion energy.","description":"Recent progress towards demonstrating inertial confinement fusion (ICF) ignition at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) has sparked wide interest in Laser Inertial Fusion Energy (LIFE) for carbon-free large-scale power generation. A LIFE-based fleet of power plants promises clean energy generation with no greenhouse gas emissions and a virtually limitless, widely available thermonuclear fuel source. For the LIFE concept to be viable, target costs must be minimized while the target material efficiency or x-ray albedo is optimized. Current ICF targets on the NIF utilize a gold or depleted uranium cylindrical radiation cavity (hohlraum) with a plastic capsule at the center that contains the deuterium and tritium fuel. Here we show a direct comparison of gold and lead hohlraums in efficiently","dates":{"release":"2013-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2013","modification":"2025-04-26T08:57:42.622Z","creation":"2019-03-27T01:06:02Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC3596797","cross_references":{"pubmed":["23486285"],"doi":["10.1038/srep01453"]}}