Systems and methods for improved sustainment of a high performance frc elevated energies utilizing neutral beam injectors with tunable beam energies
AssigneeTae Technologies, Inc.
InventorsAlexander Dunaevsky, Sergei Putvinski, Artem N. Smirnov, Michl W. Binderbauer
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Abstract
Systems and methods that facilitate forming and maintaining FRCs with superior stability as well as particle, energy and flux confinement and, more particularly, systems and methods that facilitate forming and maintaining FRCs with elevated system energies and improved sustainment utilizing neutral beam injectors with tunable beam energy capabilities.
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A method for generating and maintaining a magnetic field with a field reversed configuration (FRC) comprising the steps of:
- forming an FRC about a plasma in a confinement chamber, and
- injecting a plurality of neutral beams into the FRC plasma while tuning the beam energies of the plurality of neutral beams between a first beam energy and a second beam energy, wherein the second beam energy differs from the first beam energy, wherein the second beam energy is higher than the first beam energy.
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