DocumentCode :
1708051
Title :
Magnetized target fusion: no capital investment required!!!
Author :
Lindemuth, I.R. ; Siemon, R.E. ; Kirkpatrick, R.C. ; Reinovsky, Robert E.
Author_Institution :
Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA
fYear :
1999
Firstpage :
109
Abstract :
Summary form only given, as follows. The constraints of steady-state operation for magnetic confinement and of no magnetic field for inertial confinement have forced fusion research into two extreme corners separated by more than ten orders of magnitude in time and density scales and requiring multi-billion dollar capital investments for the next steps. Simple analysis shows that combining the compressional heating of inertial confinement with the thermal insulating properties of magnetic confinement and operating in a density and time space intermediate between the two conventional fusion approaches leads to a path to fusion that can be accessed by pulsed power facilities that either already exists or are under construction in non-fusion contexts.
Keywords :
plasma confinement; plasma inertial confinement; capital investment; compressional heating; density scales; inertial confinement; magnetic confinement; magnetized target fusion; pulsed power facilities; steady-state operation; thermal insulating properties; time scales; Cogeneration; Inertial confinement; Insulation; Investments; Magnetic analysis; Magnetic confinement; Magnetic fields; Magnetic separation; Space heating; Steady-state;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Plasma Science, 1999. ICOPS '99. IEEE Conference Record - Abstracts. 1999 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Monterey, CA, USA
ISSN :
0730-9244
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5224-6
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/PLASMA.1999.829317
Filename :
829317
Link To Document :
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