• 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