Alternative Fusion Fuels and Systems

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Explores the systems of magnetic confinement of high-temperature plasma with closed and open magnetic field lines which relate to alternative compact devices of controlled thermonuclear fusion. Energy balance schemes of thermonuclear plasmas and main reactor characteristics are presented as the authors compare conceptual projects based on classical tokamak and stellarator, spherical tokamak and compact torus. They explore the questions and problems of new promising nuclear and thermonuclear power plants that source thermonuclear neutrons on a mixture of deuterium and tritium, and a low-radioactive reactor on a mixture of deuterium and helium-3.  Read more... Abstract: Explores the systems of magnetic confinement of high-temperature plasma with closed and open magnetic field lines which relate to alternative compact devices of controlled thermonuclear fusion. Energy balance schemes of thermonuclear plasmas and main reactor characteristics are presented as the authors compare conceptual projects based on classical tokamak and stellarator, spherical tokamak and compact torus. They explore the questions and problems of new promising nuclear and thermonuclear power plants that source thermonuclear neutrons on a mixture of deuterium and tritium, and a low-radioactive reactor on a mixture of deuterium and helium-3 Content: Foreword. Introduction. A low-radioactive fuel cycle based on the D-3He reaction. Advantages and possibilities of using helium-3 as a thermonuclear fuel. Alternative Deuterium Cycles. Low-radioactive D-3He cycle with 3He production. Possible types of deuterium-helium-3 based reactors. Spherical tokamak reactor on D-3He fuel. Sources of thermonuclear neutrons with magnetic confinement. Source of neutrons based on tokamak.Open magnetic traps. Field-reversed configuration (FRC). General information about FRC. FRC Physics. FRC Evolution modeling. Experiments. Thermonuclear systems based on FRC. Multipole traps. Features of dipole and multipole configurations. Parameters of a D-3He reactor based on a multipole configuration. Systems of magneto-inertial fusion. The concept of magneto-inertial fusion. Rocket and isentropic models of laser reduction of a magnetized spherical target.The configurations of the target and the liner formed by supersonic gas and plasma jets. The thermonuclear yield in the MIF target. Source of neutrons based on MIF. Apps. References.