Application of railgun principle to high-velocity hydrogen pellet injection for magnetic fusion reactor refueling: Technical progress report

Technical Report · Tue Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:5453905

Kim, Kyekyoon ^[1]

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1. Kevin

This paper discusses the use of a railgun accelerator to inject hydrogen pellets into a magnetic fusion reactor for refueling purposes. Specific studies in this paper include: 1.5 mm-diameter two-stage fuseless plasma-arc-driven electromagnetic railgun, construction and testing of a 3.2 mm-diameter two-stage railgun and a theoretical analysis of the behavior of a railgun plasma-arc armature inside a railgun. (LSP)

• Research Organization: Illinois Univ., Urbana (USA). Fusion Technology Lab.
• DOE Contract Number: FG02-84ER52111
• OSTI ID: 5453905
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/52111-T2; ON: DE88005830; TRN: 88-010930
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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