Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Opening remarks / E. Panarella
  • Fusion research : the past is prologue / Richard F. Post
  • Recent progress in plasma focus development : from an existing 3 MJ to projected 100 MJ plasma focus installation / N.V. Filippov [and others]
  • Review on a dense plasma focus research line and projections in the nuclear fusion field / Jorge O. Pouzo
  • The International Center for Dense Magnetized Plasmas : an outline / A. Bernard [and others]
  • Heliotron research at Kyoto University / T. Obiki [and others]
  • Inertial confinement fusion at the Los Alamos National Laboratory / E. Lindman [and others]
  • Dissipative phenomena in shock wave implosion / F. Giammanco
  • The spherical pinch as a radiation source for EUV lithography / J. Zhao and E. Panarella
  • Magnetized target fusion in a spheroidal geometry with standoff drivers / Y.C.F. Thio [and others]
  • Geometry of the spherical pinch / Nikos Salingaros.
  • Physics of fusion burning plasmas, ignition and relevant technologies / Bruno Coppi
  • High confinement regime in TFTR configurations with reversed magnetic shear / Ernesto Mazzucato and TFTR Group
  • FRC fusion reactor for deep space propulsion / John Slough and Kenneth Miller
  • Experimental initiation of field-reversed configuration (FRC) toward helium-3 fusion / Seiichi Goto
  • Helium-3 fusion based on a field-reversed configuration / Hiromu Momota and Yukihiro Tomita
  • A user facility for research on fusion systems with dense plasmas / Dmitri D. Ryutov
  • IEC neutron source development and potential well measurements / George H. Miley and Yibin Gu
  • A prospect of the tandem mirror fusion approach / Teruo Tamano
  • Magnetic pressure driven spherical liner implosion experiments / James H. Degnan [and others]
  • The advances in programming compact toms (PCT) physics and conceptual design / Rustam Kh. Kurtmullaev.
  • Innovative confinement concepts workshop / Ronald C. Kirkpatrick
  • Present status and future prospect of inertial confinement fusion in Japan / Tatsuhiko Yamanaka
  • Inertial fusion targets ignition by hypervelocity plasma jets / J.M. Martinez-Val, P.M. Velarde and S. Eliezer
  • Numerical simulation of ICF experiments and conceptual designs / Pedro Velarde
  • Prospects for inertial fusion energy based on a diode-pumped solid-state laser (DPSSL) driver : overview and development path / Charles D. Orth
  • Status of direct-drive inertial confinement fusion research at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics / Robert L. McCrory and John M. Soures
  • Magnetized compression/magnetized target fusion (MAGO/MTF) : an update / Ronald C. Kirkpatrick and Irvin R. Lindemuth
  • Staged Z pinches for controlled thermonuclear fusion : theoretical studies / H.U. Rahman [and others]
  • UCI staged Z-pinch / F.J. Wessel [and others]
  • Study of ICF-energy conversion schemes with magnetic field in laser-produced plasma experiments and PIC-simulation / Yu. P. Zakharov [and others].
  • The colliding beam fusion reaction I. solution to the problem of anomalous transport with beams in a field reversed configuration plasma / N. Rostoker, M.W. Binderbauer and H.J. Monkhorst
  • An overview of reversed-field pinch research / D.A. Baker and J.A. Phillips
  • The colliding beam fusion reactor II. atomic and nuclear physics of spin polarized H and B11 fuel beams / Hendrick J. Monkhorst, Michl W. Binderbauer and Norman Rostoker
  • Kinetic ballooning modes in tokamaks / A. Hirose [and others]
  • The role of magnetic turbulence in the sawtooth relaxation processin SINP tokamak / Amit Kumar Hui, Ratan Kumar Paul and Dipark Banik
  • Breakeven criteria for DT plasmas in reactor-type conditions / E. Panarella
  • Issues of fusion burn control / Hans Persson
  • Fusion of deuterium nuclei and other nuclear processes in a metallic lattice / David W. Kraft and Lloyd Motz
  • New physics for fusion energy / J. Reece Roth.
  • The Los Alamos Intense Neutron Source / R.A. Nebel [and others]
  • On the possibility to duplicate in the laboratory fusion relevant ball lightnings / Mircea Sanduloviciu and Emilia Lozneanu
  • Advanced analyzers and probes for fusion-plasma diagnostics / Edbertho Leal-Quiros and Mark A. Prelas
  • Centrifugally confined plasmas : enhanced stability scenarios / M.G. Jackson [and others]
  • Confinement of a rotating degenerate gas of ions in a magnetic field / Vincenzo Molinari and Domiziano Mostacci
  • Magnetic compression/magnetized target fusion (MAGO/MTF) : a marriage of intertial and magnetic confinement / Irvin R. Lindemuth [and others]
  • Hohlraum targets driven by cluster ion beams for inertial confinement fusion / C. Deutsch [and others]
  • Concluding remarks / Emilio Panarella
  • Report of the evaluators / Stirling A. Colgate [and others].