Aneutronic High-gain Target Design with Advanced Thermonuclear Fuels

We at Blue Laser Fusion, Inc. aim to realize the aneutronic laser fusion demonstration power plant in the 2030s. We are designing and developing all solid targets that can achieve a target gain of 100 with less neutron emission and cheaper cost by the direct-drive fast ignition laser fusion scheme. The key points in our target design are to achieve high fusion gain by ignition and burning our advanced fusion fuels of the multi-layered target of DTLi and pB11 that are initially in solid phase at room temperature with DT reaction as the initial ignition source, to achieve high areal density implosion that enables 14.1 MeV neutrons to be moderated in the target, mainly in the pB11 layer, and to achieve fast ignition that realizes highly efficient and reliable ignition. We will present the baseline of our target design and discuss the research topic.