Neutral-beam-injection systems for reactors

Conference · Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1983

OSTI ID:5723557

Pyle, R V

Increasing effort is being put into engineering designs of reactors and reactor-like magnetic confinement experiments. A central question concerns the methods of heating, fueling, and maintaining the plasmas, functions that primarily are now performed by neutral beams. Planning in the USA does not include the use of neutral beams on tokamaks in the 1990's and beyond. Tandem mirrors, however, will use energetic beams (sloshing ion beams) in the end plugs to produce electrostatic potentials that will confine plasma ions. These systems will be based on the production, acceleration, transport, and neutralization of negative hydrogen-ion (D/sup -/), multiampere beams with energies of 200-to 500-keV. In addition, lower-energy D and T beams may be used. These systems must operate steady state, with high reliability, and be compatible with radiation from a D-T burning plasma.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC03-76SF00098
• OSTI ID: 5723557
• Report Number(s): LBL-16279; CONF-830920-6; ON: DE83015701
• Resource Relation: Conference: 7. symposium on sources and ion assisted technology and 4. international conference on ion and plasma assisted techniques, Kyoto, Japan, 12 Sep 1983; Other Information: Portions are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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