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Compact-toroid fusion reactor based on the field-reversed theta pinch [electronic resource] : reactor scaling and optimization for CTOR

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Los Alamos, N.M. : Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, 1980.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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Pages: 12 : digital, PDF file
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Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Summary
Early scoping studies based on approximate, analytic models have been extended on the basis of a dynamic plasma model and an overall systems approach to examine a Compact Toroid (CT) reactor embodiment that uses a Field-Reversed Theta Pinch as a plasma source. The field-reversed plasmoid would be formed and compressionally heated to ignition prior to injection into and translation through a linear burn chamber, thereby removing the high-technology plasmoid source from the hostile reactor environment. Stabilization of the field-reversed plasmoid would be provided by a passive conduction shell located outside the high-temperature blanket but within the low-field superconducting magnets and associated radiation shielding. On the basis of this batch-burn but thermally steady-state approach a reactor concept emerges with a length below approx. 40 m that generates 300 to 400 MWe of net electrical power with a recirculating power fraction less than 0.15.
Report Numbers
E 1.99:la-ur-80-2921
E 1.99: conf-801011-49
conf-801011-49
la-ur-80-2921
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Published through SciTech Connect.
01/01/1980.
"la-ur-80-2921"
" conf-801011-49"
4. ANS topical meeting on the technology of controlled nuclear fusion, King of Prussia, PA, USA, 14 Oct 1980.
Krakowski, R.A.; Hagenson, R.L.
Funding Information
W-7405-ENG-36
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