Candidates for Laser Fusion Energy with Minimized Radioactivity

The new candidates for laser fusion energy with minimized radioactivity were presented. The possibility of side-on laser ignition of H–¹¹B with negligible radioactivity encouraged to study the fusion of solid state H–⁷Li fuel which again turns out to be only about ten times more difficult than the side-on ignition of solid deuterium–tritium using petawatt-picosecond laser pulses at anomalous interaction conditions if very high contrast ratio. Updated cross sections of the nuclear reaction are included. In other words, the specific approach discussed here involves inducing a fusion burn wave without radioactivity by laser-driven impact of a relatively large block of plasma on the outside of a solid density H–¹¹B and H–⁷Li targets.