Advanced-fueled fusion reactors suitable for direct energy conversion. Third quarterly progress report: July 1976--September 1976
- ed.
The model for a single-stage, direct converter has been refined to include the ion flux characteristic of reactors fueled with either catalyzed D or D-/sup 3/He. For the low-..beta.., catalyzed-D reactor, with T/sub e/ equals T/sub i/ and N = 4, direct conversion efficiencies ranging from 60 percent down to 35 percent were calculated over the power density range from 50 W/cm/sup 2/ to 200 W/cm/sup 2/. A study of the effect of the magnetic field on the ion trajectories in the two-stage Venetian blind converter has been made; the results suggest that a typical maximum tolerable magnetic field strength is about 0.025 T. Some results of a study of an alternate structural arrangement for the direct converter electrodes in a tokamak reactor are shown.
- Research Organization:
- California Univ., Livermore (USA). Lawrence Livermore Lab.
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-48
- OSTI ID:
- 7222807
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-50039-76-3
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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CHARGED PARTICLES
DEUTERIUM
DIRECT ENERGY CONVERTERS
ELECTRODES
EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI
EVEN-ODD NUCLEI
HELIUM 3
HELIUM 4
HELIUM ISOTOPES
HYDROGEN ISOTOPES
IONS
ISOTOPES
LIGHT NUCLEI
LOW-BETA PLASMA
MAGNETIC FIELDS
NUCLEI
ODD-ODD NUCLEI
PERFORMANCE
PLASMA
STABLE ISOTOPES
THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS
TOKAMAK TYPE REACTORS