Induced nuclear reactions: processes – systems – and elements – Nuclear fusion – Fusion reaction by plural colliding plasmas or particle beams
Patent
1990-08-09
1992-10-06
Wasil, Daniel D.
Induced nuclear reactions: processes, systems, and elements
Nuclear fusion
Fusion reaction by plural colliding plasmas or particle beams
376146, 376147, G21B 102
Patent
active
051529556
ABSTRACT:
This invention relates to adaptation of intersecting storage rings, of the same type used in high energy nuclear physics research, for power generation. The device is optimized for lower-energy beam paricles and higher beam current, adapted with a reaction chamber at the intersection of the rings to collect released fusion energy for conversion to electricity, and equipped with means to recapture scattered accelerated particles and reintegrate them into the focused beams for recirculation through the reaction chamber. The preferred beam particles, deuterium and tritium, are accelerated and injected into and focused by the storage rings, to collide nearly head on in the reaction chamber. Non-colliding, accelerated beam particles are conserved by recovery, correction and recirculation, requiring relatively small amounts of input energy to maintain acceleration and focus of the beams, and thus remain energized for another collision attempt. Grid devices intercept scattered particles and recapture some of them for recirculation. Only those beam particles which scatter so widely as to evade recapture and those which actually react to produce thermonuclear fusion must be replaced and accelerated up to the energy sufficient to cause fusion.
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Wasil Daniel D.
Wedemeyer Lowell R.
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