http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/194290028

Progress in Inertial Fusion Energy Modelling at DENIM

New results of the jet driven ignition target are presented, both with direct and indirect drive. This target is based on the conical guided target used in fast ignition, but use only one laser pulse. The ignition of the target is started by the impact of a jet produced in the guiding cone, instead of using charged particles generated by a other high power laser. We have shown that a laser or X-ray pulse could be used to produce a high velocity jet of several hundred of km/s by an accumulative effect, and we use these ideas to design this new kind of targets. In order to increase the efficiency of the process, we scan in the simulations different materials, cone profiles and laser intensities. ANALOP is a code developed to calculate opacities for hot plasmas, using analytical potentials including density and temperature effects. It has been recently updated to include the radiative transport into the rate equations by mean of the escape factors, and in parallel a line transport code which solve self-consistently the rate equation and radiative transfer equation in 1D planar geometry has been also developed. We have developed a comprehensive methodology to compute uncertainties on activation calculations. First we developed a sensitivity-uncertainty analysis method, providing the uncertainties of the different inventory responses functions due to the uncertainty of each of the reaction cross sections separately. Lately, we have developed and proved the excellent behaviour of a Monte Carlo-based methodology in assessing the synergetic/global effect of the complete set of cross-sections uncertainties on calculated radiological quantities. The methods have been applied to the activation analysis of the National Ignition Facility (NIF) and different IFE concepts (HYLIFE and Sombrero). Research on multiscale modeling of radiation damage in metals will be presented in comparison with ''ad hoc'' experiments. Research on SiC composite is being pursued at macroscopic level. However, results from theory and simulation to explain that physics is being slowly progressing. The systematic identification of type of stable defects is the first goal that will presented after verification of a new tight binding MD technique. The different level of knowledge between simulation and experiments will be remarked. Our research on simulation of Silica Irradiation Damage will also be presented. We also will present the role of ingestion by tritiated foods, when the most important chemical forms of tritium, elemental tritium (HT) and tritiated water (HTO) derive in special form of tritium: Organically Bound Tritium (OBT).

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