ENERGY PRODUCTION AND FUSION PRODUCTS FROM A THERMONUCLEAR PLASMA

Technical Report · Wed Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1959

OSTI ID:4228792

Faust, W R; Anderson, A D

With the aid of the NRL computer, Narec, calculations were made giving the ion concentrations, neutron emission energy density, and temperature as a functpon of time in deuterium-tritium and pure deuterium plasmas raised initially to temperatures near the thermonuclear ignition'' temperatures. The initial conditions chosen for a deuterium-tritium mixture were temperatures of 3.0, 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, and 5.0 kev, with both the deuterium and tritium ion concentrations being 10/sup 18//cm/sup 3/. The set of initial conditions chosen for pure deuterium was 10/sup 18/ ions/cm/sup 3/ and temperatures of resulting from these preliminary calculations, in which the problem was idealized and other simplifying assumptions made, indicate an ignition ' temperature for the deuterium-tritium mixture somewhere between 3.0 and 3.5 kev and an ignition'' temperature for the pure deuterium between 15 and 20 kev. (auth)

• Research Organization: Naval Research Lab., Washington, D.C.
• NSA Number: NSA-13-022176
• OSTI ID: 4228792
• Report Number(s): NRL-5371; Project NR-550-000
• Country of Publication: Country unknown/Code not available
• Language: English

Related Subjects

COMPUTERS
CONTROLLED THERMONUCLEAR PROCESSES
DENSITY
DEUTERIUM
DIAGRAMS
EMISSION
ENERGY
IONS
KEV RANGE
NEUTRONS
PLASMA
PRODUCTION
TABLES
TEMPERATURE
THERMONUCLEAR REACTIONS
TRITIUM