Fast thermonuclear ignition with two nested high current lower voltage-high voltage lower current magnetically insulated transmission lines

摘要

Fast thermonuclear ignition with a high gain seems possible with two Marx generators feeding two nested magnetically insulated transmission lines, one delivering a high current lower voltage pulse for compression and confinement, and one delivering a high voltage lower current pulse for fast ignition. With an input energy conceivably as small as 100 U the gain can be as large as 10(3). The concept not only would be by orders of magnitude less expensive than laser compression and fast ignition schemes, but because of the large gain with a small yield also be more suitable for a thermonuclear reactor. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. [References: 10]