%0 Journal Article
%T For a New Department of Energy Lab to Examine Laser Fusion for Energy
%A Wallace Manheimer
%J Open Journal of Applied Sciences
%P 976-986
%@ 2165-3925
%D 2025
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/ojapps.2025.154066
%X This paper gives a summary of a talk by the author at the mini-conference entitled <i>Progress in Making IFE-based Concepts a Realit</i><i>y</i> at the APS-DPP meeting in Atlanta in October, 2024. It argues principally for a new DoE lab to examine the potential opportunity of laser fusion for civilian energy, by direct drive, with an excimer laser. This work is motivated mostly by the demonstration of a burning plasma in an indirect drive configuration, by the Lawrence Livermore National laboratory with its NIF laser. Also, it concludes by briefly gives some impressions of the mini conference.
%K Laser Fusion
%K Fusion Breeding
%K Excimer Lasers
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=141913