Proposed Generation and Compression of a Target Plasma for MTF

Magnetized target fusion (MTF), in which a magnetothermally insulated plasma is hydrodynamically compressed to fusion conditions, represents an approach to controlled fusion which avoids difficulties of both traditional inertial confinement and magnetic confinement approaches. It appears possible to...

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Main Authors: Kirkpatrick, Ronald C, Thurston, Rodney S, Chrein, Robert E, Guzik, Joyce A, Sgro, Anthony G, Scudder, David W, Wysocki, Fred J, Fernandez, Juan C, Shlachter, Jack S, Lindemuth, Irvin R
Format: Report
Language:English
Subjects:
COMPRESSION
CONTROLLED FUSION
CONTROLLED NUCLEAR FUSION
ELECTRICAL INSULATION
EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN
Fusion Devices(thermonuclear)
HYDRODYNAMICS
INERTIAL SYSTEMS
INSULATION
MAGNETIZATION
MTF(MAGNETIZED TARGET FUSION)
Plasma Physics and Magnetohydrodynamics
PLASMAS(PHYSICS)
POWER SUPPLIES
PULSES
THERMAL PROPERTIES
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Summary:Magnetized target fusion (MTF), in which a magnetothermally insulated plasma is hydrodynamically compressed to fusion conditions, represents an approach to controlled fusion which avoids difficulties of both traditional inertial confinement and magnetic confinement approaches. It appears possible to compress a rnagnetothermally insulated plasma to fusion ignition conditions using existing, relatively inexpensive drivers, such as pulsed power devices (including explosive pulsed power). Hence, MTF may represent a means to demonstrate and study ignited plasmas with a very small capital investment. An ongoing LANL explosive pulsed power collaboration with the Russian VNIIEF Laboratory at Arzarnas 16 is partly motivated by this application. See also ADM002371. 2013 IEEE Pulsed Power Conference, Digest of Technical Papers 1976-2013, and Abstracts of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Plasma Science. Held in San Francisco, CA on 16-21 June 2013. U.S. Government or Federal Purpose Rights License.