Comment on 'Deuterium-tritium fusion reactors without external fusion breeding' by S. Eliezer et al. (Phys. Lett. A 243 (1998) 311)

摘要

Inclusion of inverse Compton effects in the calculation of deuterium-deuterium burn under the extreme conditions considered by Eliezer et la. [Phys. Lett. A 243 (1998) 298] are shown to decrease the maximum burn temperature from about 300 keG to only 100-150 keV. This decrease is such that tritium breeding by the DD -> T + p reaction is not sufficient to replace the small amount of tritium that is initially added to the deuterium plasma in order to trigger ignition at less than 10 keV.