Mirror plasma apparatus

Patent · 31 December 1980

OSTI ID:863852

Moir, Ralph W ^[1]

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1. Livermore, CA

A mirror plasma apparatus which utilizes shielding by arc discharge to form a blanket plasma and lithium walls to reduce neutron damage to the wall of the apparatus. An embodiment involves a rotating liquid lithium blanket for a tandem mirror plasma apparatus wherein the first wall of the central mirror cell is made of liquid lithium which is spun with angular velocity great enough to keep the liquid lithium against the first material wall, a blanket plasma preventing the lithium vapor from contaminating the plasma.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• Assignee: United States of America as represented by Unites States (Washington, DC)
• Patent Number(s): US 4260455
• OSTI ID: 863852
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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