The Belt-Shaped Screw-Pinch Reactor

摘要

Economic and technical aspects of a BSPRIL are considered. Force-free currents in a low density outer plasma envelope enable beta to rise to values on the order of 50%. Reactor operation consists of the formation, heating and ignition of a very small amount of the fuel to be burnt in one pulse by the fields generated by normal or superconducting coils. Then follows injection of the greater part of the fuel by DT pellets and consequent plasma heating and expansion by nuclear reactions without undue disturbing of the plasma current configuration. Technical requirements include an insulating first wall and fast rising magnetic fields produced by superconducting coils. A BSPRIL with pulsed superconducting coils is an economically attrative alternative to other toroidal pinch reactors and Tokamaks.. A BSPRIL with normal conducting copper coils is not much more expensive than reactors with stationary superconducting coils.