METHODS FOR FORMING AND MAINTAINING A HIGH PERFORMANCE FRC

The present disclosure provides a method that facilitates the formation and maintenance of new High Performance Field Reversed Configurations (FRCs). The method comprises generating a magnetic field with a magnetic system coupled to a confinement chamber, diametrically opposed FRC formation sections...

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Main Authors BARNES, Dan, GUO, Houyang, SMIRNOV, Artem, GARATE, Eusebio, TUSZEWSKI, Michel, BINDERBAUER, Michl, PUTVINSKI, Sergei
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Lithuanian
Published 10.05.2019
Subjects
FUSION REACTORS
NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
NUCLEAR PHYSICS
PHYSICS
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Summary:The present disclosure provides a method that facilitates the formation and maintenance of new High Performance Field Reversed Configurations (FRCs). The method comprises generating a magnetic field with a magnetic system coupled to a confinement chamber, diametrically opposed FRC formation sections, and divertors; gettering the confinement chamber and the divertors with a layer of gettering material; generating an FRC in each of the formation sections; and translating each FRC toward a midplane of the confinement chamber where the FRCs merge into a merged FRC. The method further comprises injecting neutral atom beams into the merged FRC from neutral atom beam injectors; injecting plasma into the merged FRC from axial plasma guns; and electrically biasing open flux surfaces of the merged FRC with one or more biasing electrodes.
Bibliography:Application Number: LT17169187T