Best and most recent book for ICF?

[Kidphysics]

Hopefully it is the same book but I'm looking for an up to date detailed book concerning all aspects of Inertial Confinement Fusion. You may also post any good PDFs if you have them! I know there are these IFSA books but I'm not sure the most recent which seems to be quite important because of the advancing field.

 

[Joseph Chikva]

Hopefully it is the same book but I'm looking for an up to date detailed book concerning all aspects of Inertial Confinement Fusion. You may also post any good PDFs if you have them! I know there are these IFSA books but I'm not sure the most recent which seems to be quite important because of the advancing field.

I think that nothing newer than this book: http://books.google.ge/books?id=-x5RAAAAMAAJ&source=gbs_similarbooks published in 1998
Though, even this book published in 1982, James J. Duderstadt, Gregory A. Moses, Inertial Confinement Fusion: http://books.google.ge/books/about/Inertial_confinement_fusion.html?id=RHNTAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y gives good idea what inertial confinement is.
I have a Russian translation of this book and can say you that this book is still actual for everyone interested in this branch of fusion. No new approach since that time.
Exept the news that NIF (laser fusion) program failured, as well as people refused electron and light ions (lithium) driven fusion and only heavy ions (cesium) driven fusion still is in consideration.
The book is quite informative about principles of hohlraum design, etc.

 

[Drakkith]

NIF failed? Damn...

 

[Joseph Chikva]

NIF failed? Damn...

National Ignition Facility (NIF) could not achieve expected ignition. http://www.physicstoday.org/daily_edition/politics_and_policy/nif_to_shift_emphasis_after_the_facility_s_failure_to_achieve_ignition [Broken]

On 30 September the National Ignition Facility's (NIF's) two-year-long National Ignition Campaign (NIC) officially came to an end. Despite multiple attempts on the part of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists to create miniature laser-driven thermonuclear explosions, they failed to achieve ignition, the point at which the fusion energy yield exceeds the energy required to start the reaction. In addition, Donald Cook, the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA's) deputy administrator for defense programs, admits that NIF also failed to attain an intermediate milestone where alpha particles created in the fusion process start to contribute significant amounts of heat to the plasma.

What does this mean? Success?

There are some speculations that NIF is not a fusion program totally being funding also by Department of Defense. May be Department of Defense has truly funded in NIF. But we can not ignore the fact that by its nature NIF is a laser driven fusion machine with no ignition achieved.

 

[Drakkith]

National Ignition Facility (NIF) could not achieve expected ignition. What does this mean? Success?

There are some speculations that NIF is not a fusion program totally being funding also by Department of Defense. May be Department of Defense has truly funded in NIF. But we can not ignore the fact that by its nature NIF is a laser driven fusion machine with no ignition achieved.

I'd call that a failure if its goal was to achieve ignition.

 

[Joseph Chikva]

I'd call that a failure if its goal was to achieve ignition.

I hope that your English is much better than mine:

Despite multiple attempts on the part of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists to create miniature laser-driven thermonuclear explosions, they failed to achieve ignition,...

 

[Drakkith]

Yeah, looks like a failure to me. Well, that's the way it goes sometimes.

 

[Joseph Chikva]

Yeah, looks like a failure to me. Well, that's the way it goes sometimes.

Instead they successfully help to make new StarTrack in a Darkness series. :)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/8714581/Star-Trek-fantasy-meets-engineering-reality
Because the facility really looks very futuristic.