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Inertial confinement fusion ( ICF ) is a process where nuclear fusion reactions are initiated by heating and compressing a fuel target, typically in the form of a pellet that most often contains a mixture of deuterium and tritium.
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Inertial and confinement
Inertial confinement is used in the hydrogen bomb, where the driver is x-rays created by a fission bomb.
Inertial confinement is also attempted in " controlled " nuclear fusion, where the driver is a laser, ion, or electron beam, or a Z-pinch.
Inertial confinement fusion using lasers rapidly progressed in the late 1970s and early 1980s from being able to deliver only a few joule s of laser energy ( per pulse ) to being able to deliver tens of kilojoules to a target.
Inertial confinement fusion has the potential to produce orders of magnitude more neutrons than spallation.
Inertial ( laser ) confinement, which was for a time seen as more difficult or infeasible, has generally seen less development effort than magnetic approaches.
* Inertial electrostatic confinement ( in fusion energy )
Inertial confinement fusion ( ICF ) devices use " drivers " to rapidly heat the outer layers of a " target " in order to compress it.
Category: Inertial confinement fusion research lasers
Inertial electrostatic confinement ( often abbreviated as IEC ) is a concept for retaining a plasma using an electrostatic field.
Category: Inertial confinement fusion research lasers
* Inertial confinement fusion, a means of achieving nuclear fusion
Inertial confinement fusion has the potential to produce orders of magnitude more neutrons than spallation.
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Category: Inertial confinement fusion research lasers
Inertial confinement fusion ( ICF ) devices use drivers to rapidly heat the outer layers of a target in order to compress it.
Category: Inertial confinement fusion research lasers
Inertial and fusion
In the closing address, Dr. C. Martin Stickley, then Director of US-ERDA ’ s Office of Inertial Fusion, announced the conclusion was “ no showstoppers ” on the road to fusion energy.
Inertial Motion Capture technology is based on miniature inertial sensors, biomechanical models and sensor fusion algorithms.
# Inertial ( cameraless ) systems based on MEMS inertial sensors, biomechanical models, and sensor fusion algorithms.
* Inertial fusion power plant
One application of sensor fusion is GPS / INS, where Global Positioning System and Inertial Navigation System data is fused together using various different methods, e. g. the Extended Kalman Filter.
Inertial and ICF
* Inertial Confinement Fusion ( ICF ) Review ( March 1996 ; JSR-96-300 )
Inertial and is
* Inertial mass is a measure of an object's resistance to changing its state of motion when a force is applied.
Inertial mice ( which do not require a surface to operate ) might offer an alternative where the user's arm is in a less stressful thumbs up position rather than rotated to thumb inward when holding a normal mouse.
It is an Inertial Guidance System with an additional Star-Sighting system, which is used to correct small position and velocity errors that result from launch condition uncertainties due to the sub navigation system errors and some errors that have accrued by the guidance system during the flight due to imperfect instrument calibration.
mRESINS is an experimental avionics payload called " mini Redundant Strapdown Inertial Navigation System " bolted to the vehicle's fourth stage.
Listing HIF ’ s advantages in his report, John Foster remarked: “… now that is kind of exciting .” After DoE Office of Inertial Fusion completed review of programs, Director Gregory Canavan decides to accelerate the HIF effort.
This is a classic exposition of the Inertial frame of reference and refutes the objection that if we were moving hundreds of kilometres an hour as the Earth rotated, anything that one dropped would rapidly fall behind and drift to the west.
An Inertial Navigation System ( INS ) is a navigation aid that uses a computer and motion sensors ( accelerometers ) to continuously calculate via dead reckoning the position, orientation, and velocity ( direction and speed of movement ) of a moving object without the need for external references.
In this application, the Inertial Measurement Unit ( IMU ) is equipped with three orthogonally mounted gyros to sense rotation about all axes in three-dimensional space.
* Mach6: Inertial mass is affected by the global distribution of matter.
The JSOW is a launch and leave weapon that employs a tightly coupled Global Positioning System ( GPS )/ Inertial Navigation System ( INS ), and is capable of day / night and adverse weather operations.
Another focus area has been navigation systems ; the ISRO Inertial Systems Unit ( IISU ) established at Vattiyoorkavu is a part of VSCC.
In Airbus aircraft the air data computer is combined with altitude, heading and navigation sources in a single unit known as the Air Data Inertial Reference Unit ( ADIRU ).
To accomplish this, the onboard computer uses data from the Inertial measurement unit ( IMU ) to determine when a vehicle is in a rollover condition independent of yaw rate and vehicle speed.
Inertial and where
# Inertial reference systems, where the coordinate axes retain their orientation relative to the fixed stars, or equivalently, to the rotation axes of ideal gyroscopes ; the axis points to the vernal equinox
* Carried satellites with a booster, the Payload Assist Module ( PAM-D ) or the Inertial Upper Stage ( IUS ), to the point where the booster sends the satellite to:
Inertial seatbelt release is a potential circumstance where, in a collision, the seatbelt latch can unintentionally come loose leading to potential injury of the passenger.
Inertial and nuclear
The very hot and dense conditions encountered during an Inertial Confinement Fusion experiment are similar to those created in a thermonuclear weapon, and have applications to the nuclear weapons program.
Inertial and are
They are equipped with a TERCOM system which allows them to cruise at an altitude lower than 110 meters at subsonic speeds while obtaining a CEP accuracy of 15 meters with an Inertial navigation system.
Inertial mass, gravitational mass, and the various other mass-related phenomena are conceptually distinct.
Inertial motion sensors are activated upon launch, and when the sensors detect downward acceleration after being blown out of the water, the first stage engine ignites.
* Inertial waves, which occur in rotating fluids and are restored by the Coriolis effect ;
* Inertial Measurement Units ( IMUs ) are the primary inertial system for maintaining current position ( navigation ) and orientation in missiles and aircraft.
Inertial mocap systems capture the full six degrees of freedom body motion of a human in real-time and can give limited direction information if they include a magnetic bearing sensor, although these are much lower resolution and susceptible to electromagnetic noise.
Inertial guidance systems are not perfect and Apollo system drifted about one milliradian per hour.
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