High efficiency ICF driver employing magnetically confined plasma rings [electronic resource]
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| Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Livermore, Calif : Oak Ridge, Tenn. :
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ; distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy,
1985.
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| Abstract: | We discuss the possibility of achieving energy, power and power density necessary for ICF by magnetically accelerating plasma confined by a compact torus (CT) field configuration. The CT, which consists of a dipole (poloidal) field and imbedded toroidal field formed by force-free, plasma current, is compressed and accelerated between coaxial electrodes by B/sub THETA/ fields as in a coaxial railgun. Compression and acceleration over several meters by a 9.4 MJ capacitor bank is predicted to give a 5.7 cm radius, 0.001 gm CT 5 MJ kinetic energy (10⁷ m/sec). Transport and focussing several meters by a disposable lithium pipe across the containment vessel is predicted to bring 4.8 MJ into the pellet region in 0.5 cm² area in 0.3 ns. The high efficiency (approx.50%) and high energy delivery of the CT accelerator could lead to low cost, few hundred MW power plants that are economically viable. |
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| Item Description: | Published through the Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information. 03/04/1985. "ucrl-91693" " conf-850310-114" "DE85012939" 6. topical meeting on the technology of fusion energy, San Francisco, CA, USA, 3 Mar 1985. Hartman, C.W.; Hammer, J.H.; Meeker, D.J. |
| Physical Description: | Pages: 8 : digital, PDF file. |