Overview of advanced fuel fusion
Abstract
The status and issues related to the development of advanced fuel fusion are discussed. D-(sup 3)He is a key advanced fuel since it has the potential of igniting in a variety of confinement concepts. However, to obtain a plentiful source of (sup 3)He, either lunar mining or breeding becomes necessary. Highly non-Maxwellian plasmas, such as might occur in beam-beam fusion concepts, are necessary to address fuels like p-(sup 11)B which have the added advantages of a more aneutronic character and plentiful fuel supply. Such plasmas appear very difficult to achieve but several possible approaches such as electrostatic confinement are noted.
- Publication:
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Presented at the Workshop on Tritium and Advanced Fuels in Fusion Reactors
- Pub Date:
- 1989
- Bibcode:
- 1989taff.work....6M
- Keywords:
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- Beam Interactions;
- Deuterium Compounds;
- Fusion Reactors;
- Helium Isotopes;
- Limiters (Fusion Reactors);
- Nuclear Fuels;
- Boron Isotopes;
- Breeder Reactors;
- Inertial Confinement Fusion;
- Nuclear Reactions;
- Protons;
- Plasma Physics