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- From: siegman@EE.Stanford.EDU (Anthony E. Siegman)
- Subject: Re: inertial fusion
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.202818.2024@EE.Stanford.EDU>
- Organization: Stanford University
- References: <1992Jul27.161712.14850@news.columbia.edu> <1992Jul27.191022.5470@EE.Stanford.EDU> <1992Jul29.140403.3373@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 20:28:18 GMT
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- >siegman@EE.Stanford.EDU (Anthony E. Siegman) writes:
- >
- >...Modest effort (on laser fusion) at Garching in Germany...
- >
- >Bruce Scott replies:
- >
- >There is no inertial fusion going on at IPP Garching. There is a
- >stellarator (W7-AS) and a tokamak (ASDEX Upgrade), and part of the
- >design team for ITER. Besides this there are groups for tokamak physics
-
- But is there not a very large short-pulse iodine-laser facility in
- the new IPP/MPQ building? (In fact, the building was partly designed
- around it). And does not this include a facility for irradiating
- targets with the laser beam? And was not laser-induced fusion at
- least a part of the motivation for the initial investment in this
- facility at the time the decisions were made a decade or so ago (along
- with general laser plasma physics and perhaps X-ray laser
- experiments)?
-
- I certainly thought that was the case; though I also have the
- impression that the interest in completing and using the facility may
- have diminished in recent years, and the focus turned from laser
- fusion possibilities more to a general focus on laser plasma physics.
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