Inertial confinement

Inertial confinement relies on the target's own inertia: a driver compresses and heats a small fuel capsule faster than it can disassemble. Laser drive acts directly on the capsule or indirectly through a hohlraum, with fast and shock ignition as separate ignition routes. Ion beams and pulsed electron beams replace light with mass as the driver; impact ignition uses the kinetic energy of a projectile.

Each device core below is the single owner of its reactor family's configuration truth inside the SCPN Reactor Systems research group. Solver mathematics stays in SCPN-Fusion-Core, shared physics and geometry kernels in SCPN Reactor Kernels; a device core consumes them through versioned seams and cannot actuate anything directly.

Device cores in this family

• SCPN-ICF-LASER-CORE · Laser ICF · Light Becomes Pressure Owns the configurations: laser ICF, direct drive, laser ICF, fast or shock ignition, laser ICF, indirect drive repository · architecture stage: device configuration truth, no release, no demo
• SCPN-ICF-BEAM-CORE · Beam ICF · Mass Instead Of Light Owns the configurations: ion-beam ICF, pulsed-electron-beam ICF repository · architecture stage: device configuration truth, no release, no demo
• SCPN-ICF-IMPACT-CORE · Impact ICF · Kinetic Energy As The Driver Owns the configurations: projectile or impact ICF repository · architecture stage: device configuration truth, no release, no demo

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