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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2021
Robert O. Hunter, Jr., Aspen, CO (US);
Eric W. Cornell, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Robert O. Hunter, Jr., Aspen, CO (US);
Eric W. Cornell, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
INNOVEN ENERGY LLC, Colorado Springs, CO (US);
Abstract
A confinement chamber for Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) may include a closed hohlraum and ICF target wherein the ICF target may comprise a central spherical fuel region, inner shell, outer fuel region, outer shell, and propellant region. A multitude of cylindrical beam channels may penetrate the entire thickness of the hohlraum. At the end of each cylindrical beam channel, where they exit the hohlraum, is a hemispherical cavity. Centered in the curvature of each cavity, and coaxial with each beam channel is a gold foam radiator. By layering materials or grading the density of a material in the propellant region of the closed hohlraum ICF target, the pressure profile on the outer shell may be tailored.