RF Alpha-Channeling in a D–³He Tandem-Mirror Burner: Raising the Recoverable Charged-Particle Fraction from 8% Toward 80%
In a deuterium–helium-3 (D–^3He) tandem-mirror burner the fusion-born 14.68 MeV proton and 3.67 MeV alpha carry the overwhelming majority of the released power as fast, mirror-trapped ions. Left to thermalise, that energy is shared between electron drag and a broadly heated ion background whose confined, usefully recov...
Priyanca Ford, P I Ford, G L Kulcinski
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