Compact-Toroid Fusion Reactor (CTOR) based on the Field-Reversed Theta Pinch
Scoping studies of a translating Compact Torus Reactor (CTOR) have been made on the basis of a dynamic plasma model and an overall systems approach. This CTOR embodiment uses a Field-Reversed Theta Pinch as a plasma source. The field-reversed plasmoid would be formed and compressionally heated to ignition prior to injection into and translation through a linear burn chamber, thereby removing the high-technology plamoid source from the hostile reactor environment. Stabilization of the field-reversed plasmoid would be provided by a passive conducting shell located outside the high-temperature blanket but within the low-field superconducting magnets and associated radition shielding. On the basis of this batch-burn but thermally steady-state approach, a reactor concept emerges with a length below approx. 40 m that generates 300 to 400 MWe of net electrical power with a recirculating power fraction less than 0.15.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Technology International, Inc., Ames, IA (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 5923460
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-81-2881; CONF-811046-6; ON: DE82000694; TRN: 82-001398
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Meeting and workshop on fusion reactor design and technology, Tokyo, Japan, 5 Oct 1981
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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