A European consortium of 15 laboratories across nine nations have worked together under the EUROFusion Enabling Research grants for the past decade with three principle objectives. These are: (a) investigating obstacles to ignition on megaJoule-class laser facilities; (b) investigating novel alternative approaches to ignition, including basic studies for fast ignition (both electron and ion-driven), auxiliary heating, shock ignition etc.; and (c) developing technologies that will be required in the future for a fusion reactor. The Hooke discussion meeting in March 2020 provided an opportunity to reflect on the progress made in inertial confinement fusion research world-wide to date. This first edition of two special issues seeks to identify paths forward to achieve high fusion energy gain. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Prospects for high gain inertial fusion energy (part 1)’.

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高增益惯性聚变能的前景：第一个特别版介绍

在过去的十年中，一个由 9 个国家的 15 个实验室组成的欧洲联盟在 EUROFusion 支持研究资助下共同合作，实现了三个主要目标。它们是： (a) 调查兆焦级激光设施的点火障碍；(b) 研究新的点火替代方法，包括快速点火（电子和离子驱动）、辅助加热、冲击点火等的基础研究；(c) 开发未来聚变反应堆所需的技术。2020 年 3 月的胡克讨论会议提供了一个机会来反思迄今为止在全球惯性约束聚变研究方面取得的进展。这两个特刊的第一版旨在确定实现高聚变能量增益的途径。