Magneto-Inertia Confinement Approach (MICA) to fusion in dynamic Z-pinch formed from a frozen deuterium-tritium tube
Abstract
The magneto-inertial confinement approach to fusion in a dynamic z-pinch regime is reconsidered using a new method of generating a hot plasma using a frozen deuterium tube as an initial condition. It will be seen that the technology of fabricating deuterium ice tube is possible if available pulse power technology could induce a current on the order of 10 MA along the tube. The dense z-pinch plasma formed from the electromagnetic implosion of this tubular deuterium-tritium ice with a radius of approximately 1 mm can satisfy the Lawson criterion, provided that its length is 1 cm.
- Publication:
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Unknown
- Pub Date:
- November 1987
- Bibcode:
- 1987mica.rept.....I
- Keywords:
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- Deuterium;
- Dynamical Systems;
- Inertial Fusion (Reactor);
- Magnetic Fields;
- Pipes (Tubes);
- Tritium;
- Zeta Pinch;
- Controlled Fusion;
- Fabrication;
- Freezing;
- Implosions;
- Plasma Heating;
- Plasma Pinch;
- Pulse Generators;
- Plasma Physics