Magnetic Inertial Confinement Fusion (MICF)

MIAO Feng (苗峰); ZHENG Xianjun (曾宪俊); DENG Baiquan (邓柏权); LIU Wei (刘伟); OU Wei (欧巍); HUANG Yi (黄毅)

doi:10.1088/1009-0630/18/11/01

Plasma Science and Technology > 2016 > 18(11): 1055-1063. > DOI: 10.1088/1009-0630/18/11/01

MIAO Feng (苗峰), ZHENG Xianjun (曾宪俊), DENG Baiquan (邓柏权), LIU Wei (刘伟), OU Wei (欧巍), HUANG Yi (黄毅). Magnetic Inertial Confinement Fusion (MICF)[J]. Plasma Science and Technology, 2016, 18(11): 1055-1063. DOI: 10.1088/1009-0630/18/11/01

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Magnetic Inertial Confinement Fusion (MICF)

1Institute of Atomic and Molecular Physics, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610065, China 2HOPE Innovations Inc., Ontario, L4W0A5, Canada 3Southwestern Institute of Physics, Chengdu 610041, China 4Southwest University for Nationalities, Chengdu 610041, China 5Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China

Funds: supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 11374217 and 11176020)

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Received Date: August 27, 2015

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Based on the similarity in models of the early Sun and the 3-D common focal region of the micro-pinch in X-pinch experiments, a novel hybrid fusion configuration by continuous focusing of multiple Z-pinched plasma beams on spatially symmetric plasma is proposed. By replacing gravity with Lorentz force with subsequent centripetal spherical pinch, the beam-target fusion reactivity is enhanced in a quasi-spherical converging region, thus achieving MICF. An assessment, presented here, suggests that a practical fusion power source could be achieved using deuterium alone. Plasma instabilities can be suppressed by fast rotation resulting from an asymmetric tangential torsion in the spherical focal region of this configuration. Mathematical equivalence with the Sun allows the development of appropriate equations for the focal region of MICF, which are solved numerically to provide density, temperature and pressure distributions that produce net fusion energy output. An analysis of MICF physics and a preliminary experimental demonstration of a single beam are also carried out.
- MICF,
- centripetal spherical pinch,
- beam-target enhancement

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