Development of repetitive railgun pellet accelerator and steady-state pellet supply system

Conference · Sun Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1995

OSTI ID:465057

Oda, Y; Onozuka, M; Azuma, K ^[1]; Kasai, S; Hasegawa, K ^[2]

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1. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Kobe (Japan)
2. Japan Atomic Energy Research Inst., Naka (Japan)

A railgun system for repetitive high-speed pellet acceleration and steady-state pellet supply system has been developed and investigated. Using a 2m-long railgun system, the hydrogen pellet was accelerated to 2.6km/sec by the supplied energy of 1.7kJ. It is expected that the hydrogen pellet can be accelerated to 3km/sec using the present pneumatic pellet accelerator and a 2m-long augment railgun. Screw-driven hydrogen-isotope filament extruding system has been fabricated and will be tested to examine its applicability to the steady-state extrusion of the solid hydrogen-isotope filament.

• OSTI ID: 465057
• Report Number(s): CONF-950905-; ISBN 0-7803-2969-4; TRN: 97:007565
• Resource Relation: Conference: 16. IEEE/NPSS symposium on fusion engineering, Champaign, IL (United States), 1-5 Oct 1995; Other Information: PBD: 1995; Related Information: Is Part Of 1995 IEEE 16. symposium on fusion engineering. Volume 2; Miley, G.H.; Elliott, C. [eds.] [Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL (United States). Fusion Studies Lab.]; PB: 851 p.
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION
THERMONUCLEAR REACTOR FUELING
FUEL FEEDING SYSTEMS
PELLET INJECTION
THERMONUCLEAR FUELS
RAILGUN ACCELERATORS
DESIGN