Magnetized Target Fusion

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Apr 2002

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American Physical Society, April Meeting, Jointly Sponsored with the High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the American As

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Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) has emerged in recent years as a qualitatively different approach or "pathway" to fusion energy. Just as conventional magnetic and inertial fusion pathways have attractive features as well as problems, so does MTF. If it works, MTF requires less fuel to be heated in a much smaller volume than magnetic fusion, and demands much less power intensity than inertial fusion. The cost of necessary facilities and overall development is therefore expected to be more than an order of magnitude smaller than with "conventional fusion" approaches. Still at the exploratory stage of development, MTF utilizes liner technology to generate millions of atmospheres of pressure in microsecond pulses. Such pressure is sufficient to heat DT fuel to the required temperatures for fusion (100 million degrees) and with sufficient liner energy, energy gain should be possible. Fusion fuel needs to be preheated to between 1 and 10 million degrees before it is compressed in a liner. One possible method for preheating is currently being developed in an experiment at Los Alamos, and liner compression of the plasma is planned a few years from now. This talk will examine both MTF scientific issues and the prospects for applying MTF technology to energy production.

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