Nuclear-pumped lasers and the problems of ICF

The concept for an inertial confinement fusion (ICF) system is presented, which is driven by laser output power amplifiers designed as pulse nuclear reactor-pumped lasers. A brief review is given of the current status of research in this field at the Institute of Physics and Power Engineering, Obninsk, Russia. The development of a pulsed nuclear reactor-pumped laser system, based on all ignition reactor module in the form of a two-core fast-burst reactor and a thermal subcritical laser module employing an Ar-Xe laser active medium, is reported