Title :
A proposal to fusion scheme by light ion beam
Author :
Niu, K. ; Kawata, Shigeo ; Okada, Takashi ; Murakami, H. ; Tamba, M.
Author_Institution :
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Midori-ku, Yokohama 227, Japan
Abstract :
Twelve Marx generators, whose total stored energy is 26MJ and diode voltage is 10MV or 5.1MV, supply the energy to diodes to extract proton beams. The combination of two types of diodes are used. One type of diodes has the outer radius of 32.3cm and the inner radius of 30cm insulated by the radial magnetic field and extracts the rotating ring beam whose energy is 0.802MJ, pulse width is 40ns, propagation energy is 5.1MeV, mean rotation energy is 3.3MeV and electric current along the propagation direction is 1.43MA. The other type of diodes is the ordinal one, from which the proton beam of 0.518MJ, 40ns, 5.1MeV and 2.54MA is extracted and fills the inner hollow part of the rotating ring beam. The neon gas filling the reactor cavity with the number density of 1022/m3 neutralizes the charge of proton beam during 1ns, but does not neutralize the current of the beam because the mean Larmor radius of electron in the neon gas is shorter than the electron mean free path. The proton beam pinches to the radius of 5.52mm by the action of self-induced magnetic field in the azimuthal direction and its propagation is stabilized by the action of self-induced magnetic field in the propagation direction. The cryogenic hollow shell target of 6mm radius consists of three layers of Pb, Al and DT fuel. The inhomogeneity of the irradiation on the target surface by 12 beams (really 6 beams) is 19% at the maximum points and less than 5% on the average. The fuel implodes with the velocity of 1.88×105m/s after the deposition of beam energy of 7.29MJ. The ion temperature and R of the fuel reach 4.15keV and 7.00g/cm2 Thus we have the output energy of 2.46GJ from a target. When the reactor is operated with the operation rate of 1Hz, the reactor supplies the electric output power of about 800MW.
Conference_Titel :
High-Power Particle Beams, 1983. HPPB. 5th International Conference on