{"id":94,"date":"2010-11-16T10:41:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T09:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sussp68.phys.strath.ac.uk\/?page_id=94"},"modified":"2011-08-16T21:43:42","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T20:43:42","slug":"public-lecture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sussp68.phys.strath.ac.uk\/?page_id=94","title":{"rendered":"Public Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- \t\t@page { margin: 2cm } \t\tH1 { margin-top: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; page-break-inside: avoid } \t\tH1.western { font-family: \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: 18pt } \t\tH1.cjk { font-family: \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: 18pt } \t\tH1.ctl { font-family: \"Times New Roman\", serif; font-size: 14pt } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } \t\tA:link { color: #0000ff } --><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">John Anderson Building &#8211; Lecture Theatre\u00a03.25 (level 3)<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Wednesday 17 August 2011, 6pm-7pm (followed by a reception)<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Laser Inertial Fusion Energy : Fusion energy soon enough to make a difference<\/h2>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h4>by Chris Edwards<\/h4>\n<h4>HiPER Fusion Project Director, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory<\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>and Mordecai D. (&#8220;Mordy&#8221;) Rosen<\/h4>\n<h4>Chief Scientist, AX Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA<\/h4>\n<h3>\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p>Energy production from laser driven fusion (Laser Energy) has the potential to solve mankind\u2019s energy needs for ever provided that answers can be found to some profound technological and commercial challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The landscape of fusion is about to make a transformational change, with the first demonstration of laser driven ignition of a DT target anticipated within the next 18 months at the National Ignition Facility in the USA.<\/p>\n<p>The HiPER (Europe) and LIFE (U.S.) projects have been established to build upon the achievement of first ignition, leading to demonstration of commercially viable power production within the next 15 to 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>This session will discuss the advantages of Laser Energy, explain some of the basic physics principles of the process and explore the key requirements for the technology programme which leads to commercial energy production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Anderson Building &#8211; Lecture Theatre\u00a03.25 (level 3) Wednesday 17 August 2011, 6pm-7pm (followed by a reception) \u00a0 Laser Inertial Fusion Energy : Fusion energy soon enough to make a difference \u00a0 by Chris Edwards HiPER Fusion Project Director, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory \u00a0 and Mordecai D. (&#8220;Mordy&#8221;) Rosen Chief Scientist, AX Division, Lawrence Livermore National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-94","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sussp68.phys.strath.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sussp68.phys.strath.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sussp68.phys.strath.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sussp68.phys.strath.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sussp68.phys.strath.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/sussp68.phys.strath.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/sussp68.phys.strath.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94\/revisions\/96"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sussp68.phys.strath.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}