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
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