4. Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF)

Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF), in recent years has raised a lot of interest beyond just the national laboratories in United State and abroad. The ICF aim is toward producing clean energy, using high-energy laser beam or for that matter a particle beam (i.e., the particle beam may consist of heavy or light ion beam) to drive a pellet of two isotopes of hydrogen to fuse and release energy. There are two basic approaches to achieve the desired controlled thermonuclear fusion, namely, Magnetic Confinement Fusion (MCF) and Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) and in this book, we talk about the lateral methodology and particularly in this chapter, and we will discuss possible way of achieving ICF for generating energy via controlled thermonuclear fusion process.