EDWARD TELLER LECTURES: LASERS AND INERTIAL FUSION ENERGY; ED. BY HEINRICH HORA

How to achieve unlimited, safe, clean and low-cost energy by laser- or beam-driven inertial nuclear fusion has preoccupied all winners of the Edward Teller Medal since its inception in 1991. This book presents their findings, meeting discussions, and personal insights from Edward Teller himself. Expect discussion of important advances anticipated in the future such as multi-billion dollar fusion research projects (NIF), and new schemes such as the petawatt-picosecond laser-plasma interactions evoking new physics and coupling mechanisms.For the first time, laser technology of the new century is providing the very short and extremely intense energetic pulses needed for fusion energy from next generation power stations, which produce energy at several times lower cost than any other source. The long-sought dream to directly ignite frozen heavy hydrogen for controlled use is close to being realized. Years of research on plasmas and lasers carried out worldwide in highly sophisticated experiments is summarized. The coverage begins with the work of John Nuckolls and Nobel Laureate Nikolai Basov and leads to the new scheme of plasma block acceleration via the nonlinear ponderomotive force. Edward Teller Lectures is one of the first guides to these new developments. Contents......Page 10 Foreword by Edward Michael Campbell......Page 14 1. Overview......Page 16 2. Big Laser Solution......Page 19 3. Physics of the Fast Igniter......Page 24 4. Fast Igniter for Electron Beam Fusion......Page 26 5. Block Igniter for Producing Ion Beam Ignition......Page 27 6. Concluding Remarks......Page 31 References:......Page 32 Occasional Addresses by Edward Teller at Conferences of Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena (LIRPP)......Page 38 Edward Teller Troy, New York 1973......Page 40 FUTUROLOGY OF HIGH INTENSITY LASERS*......Page 42 QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS*......Page 47 Edward Teller Monterey, California 1991......Page 50 LECTURE IN CONNECTION WITH THE EDWARD TELLER MEDAL AWARD......Page 52 Edward Teller Monterey, California 1993......Page 60 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: THE EDWARD TELLER LECTURE......Page 62 Edward Teller Osaka, Japan, 1995......Page 68 Keynote address: Dr. Edward Teller......Page 70 Award Presentation and Keynote Address by Edward Teller Monterey, California 1997......Page 72 TELLER AWARD PRESENTATION AND KEYNOTE ADDRESS......Page 74 Laudations to Awardees 1991-1995......Page 82 PRIOR EDWARD TELLER AWARDEES 1991-1996......Page 84 LAUDATIONS 1999-2003......Page 88 Citations for the 1999 recipients of the Edward Teller Medal......Page 90 LECTURES PRESENTED BY THE EDWARD TELLER MEDALISTS......Page 94 JOHN H. NUCKOLLS 1991......Page 96 EDWARD TELLER MEDAL: ACCEPTANCE REMARKS*......Page 98 NIKOLAI G. BASOV 1991......Page 100 COMMENTS ON THE HISTORY AND PROSPECTS FOR INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION......Page 102 CHIYOE YAMANAKA 1991......Page 106 LASER FUSION RESEARCH IN 30 YEARS: LECTURE OF EDWARD TELLER AWARDEE......Page 108 HEINRICH HORA 1991......Page 114 NEW BASIC PHYSICS DERIVED FROM LASER PLASMA INTERACTION*......Page 116 ROBERT DAUTRAY 1993......Page 128 ACCEPTANCE of the EDWARD TELLER MEDAL1......Page 130 JOHN D. LINDL 1993......Page 132 THE EDWARD TELLER MEDAL LECTURE: THE EVOLUTION TOWARD INDIRECT DRIVE AND TWO DECADES OF PROGRESS TOWARD ICF IGNITION AND BURN......Page 134 SADAO NAKAI 1993......Page 162 VIEWS on INERTIAL FUSION ENERGY DEVELOPMENT......Page 164 E. MICHAEL CAMPBELL 1995......Page 168 Path To Ignition: US Indirect Target Physics......Page 170 ROBERT L. McCRORY 1995......Page 178 Teller Award Acceptance Speech......Page 180 GEORGE H. MILEY 1995......Page 190 1995 Edward Teller Lecture Patience and Optimism......Page 192 GENNADY A. KIRILLOV 1995......Page 210 Teller Award acceptance speech Gennady A. Kirillov......Page 212 MICHAEL H. KEY 1997......Page 214 THE EDWARD TELLER MEDAL LECTURE: HIGH INTENSITY LASERS AND THE ROAD TO IGNITION......Page 216 JÜRGEN MEYER-TER-VEHN 1997......Page 226 ICF Related Research at MPQ......Page 228 GUILLERMO VELARDE 1997......Page 234 THE LONG WAY TOWARDS INERTIAL FUSION ENERGY......Page 236 GEORGE B. ZIMMERMAN 1997......Page 242 Monte Carlo Methods in ICF......Page 244 DAVID SHVARTS 1999......Page 264 Scaling Laws of Nonlinear Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov Instabilities in Two and Three Dimensions......Page 266 STEVEN W. HAAN 1999......Page 274 Design of ignition targets for the National Ignition Facility......Page 276 STEFANO ATZENI 2001......Page 282 A Survey of Studies on Ignition and Burn of Inertially Confined Fuels......Page 284 MORDECAI D. ROSEN 2001......Page 292 Teller Medal Lecture IFSA2001: Problems and solutions in the design and analysis of early laser driven high energy density and ICF target physics experiments......Page 294 LARRY SUTER 2003......Page 304 Prospects for high-gain, high yield NIF targets driven by 2 (green) light*......Page 306 HIDEAKI TAKABE 2003......Page 324 Hydrodynamic Instability, Integrated Code, Laboratory Astrophysics, and Astrophysics......Page 326 30 YEARS LASER INTERACTION AND RELATED PLASMA PHENOMENA......Page 348 30 years LASER INTERACTION AND RELATED PLASMA PHENOMENA*......Page 350 AUTHOR INDEX......Page 366 SUBJECT INDEX......Page 372 Acknowledgment......Page 378 How to achieve unlimited, safe, clean and low-cost energy by laser- or beam-driven inertial nuclear fusion has preoccupied all winners of the Edward Teller Medal since its inception in 1991. This book presents their findings, meeting discussions, and personal insights from Edward Teller himself. Expect discussion of important advances anticipated in the future such as multi-billion dollar fusion research projects (NIF), and new schemes such as the petawatt-picosecond laser-plasma interactions evoking new physics and coupling mechanisms. For the first time, laser technology of the new century i