Part II of this special edition contains the remaining 11 papers arising from a Hooke discussion meeting held in March 2020 devoted to exploring the current status of inertial confinement fusion research worldwide and its application to electrical power generation in the future, via the development of an international inertial fusion energy programme. It builds upon increased coordination within Europe over the past decade by researchers supported by the EUROFusion Enabling Research grants, as well as collaborations that have arisen naturally with some of America's and Asia's leading researchers, both in the universities and national laboratories. The articles are devoted to informing an update to the European roadmap for an inertial fusion energy demonstration reactor, building upon the commonalities between the magnetic and inertial fusion communities’ approaches to fusion energy. A number of studies devoted to understanding the physics barriers to ignition on current facilities are then presented. The special issue concludes with four state-of-the-art articles describing recent significant advances in fast ignition inertial fusion research. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘Prospects for high gain inertial fusion energy (part 2)’.

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高增益惯性聚变能的前景：第二版介绍

本特刊的第二部分包含 2020 年 3 月举行的胡克讨论会议的剩余 11 篇论文，致力于探索全球惯性约束聚变研究的现状及其在未来发电中的应用，通过发展一个国际惯性聚变能源计划。它建立在过去十年欧洲内部加强协调的基础上，研究人员得到了 EUROFusion Enabling Research 赠款的支持，以及与美国和亚洲的一些大学和国家实验室的领先研究人员自然产生的合作。这些文章致力于告知欧洲惯性聚变能示范反应堆路线图的更新，建立在磁性和惯性聚变社区聚变能源方法之间的共性之上。然后介绍了一些致力于了解当前设施点火的物理障碍的研究。本期特刊以四篇最先进的文章结尾，描述了快速点火惯性聚变研究的最新进展。本文是讨论会议问题“高增益惯性聚变能的前景（第 2 部分）”的一部分。