Implosion heating in the Scyllac fusion test reactor
Conference
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OSTI ID:4162071
The Scyllac Fusion Test Reactor (SFTR) is a large-radius toroidal theta- pinch experiment in the Controlled Thermonuclear Research program at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. The SFTR is designed for D-T operation to achieve Q = 1, i.e., the total neutron energy at 20 MeV/neutron is equal to the internal energy of the plasma with an expected average confinement time of the plasma in the range of 200 ms. One of the most important and technologically challenging systems in the SFTR is the implosion-heating system. This system provides the implosion-heating field which must rise to approximately 8 kG in 100 to 200 ns and then crow-barred with a sufficiently long L/R time to allow the compression field to be brought up. The system employs 54-kV capacitors as the energy source arranged in a low-inductance configuration in order to obtain a short risetime with a minimum of voltage and energy. This paper describes the design and discusses the expected operating performance of the implosion-heating system. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos Scientific Lab., N.Mex. (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- NSA Number:
- NSA-33-007118
- OSTI ID:
- 4162071
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR--75-2154; CONF-751125--52
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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