Unitary Housing Having Sections and having a Hollow Toroidal Interior Chamber and an Interior Surface, and the Interior Surface of the Housing having a Rifled Geometric Shape to which Electrical Energy is Pulsed

An experimental fusion system comprising:

• a unitary fusion confinement device enclosing two hemispheres of a hollow toroidal interior chamber;
• wherein the hollow toroidal interior chamber includes an interior surface having rifling;
• wherein the unitary fusion confinement device has a diameter of at least 1 meter and no more than 3 meters;
• wherein the unitary fusion confinement device is made of non-ferrous material, wherein the non-ferrous material comprise an aluminum/scandium alloy with no more than 1% scandium;
• a first flange on an outer perimeter of the unitary fusion confinement device and that extends away from a center axis of the unitary fusion confinement device;
• wherein the experimental fusion system does not include electromagnetic coils;
• wherein the experimental fusion system is not a Z-pinch device, a sheet-pinch device, a screw pinch device, a reversed field pinch device, a toroidal pinch device, an inverse pinch device, a cylinder pinch device, an orthogonal pinch device, a Ware pinch device, a MagLIF pinch device or an uncontrolled pinch device;
• further comprising an electronic controller that generates a plurality of pulses of electrical energy;
• a first electrical line electrically coupled to the unitary fusion confinement device;
• a second electrical line electrically coupled to the unitary fusion confinement device;
• an electrical source electrically coupled to first electrical line;
• an electrical sink electrically coupled to the second electrical line, wherein the electrical sink includes an electrical conditioner electrically coupled to an electrical power distribution grid;
• wherein the unitary fusion confinement device comprises at least one section, in which each section of the unitary fusion confinement device includes an electrical insulator, each of the at least one section of the unitary fusion confinement device being electrically coupled to the first electrical line, each of the at least one section of the unitary fusion confinement device being electrically coupled to the second electrical line;
• a fuel injector mounted in each of the at least one section of the unitary fusion confinement device, wherein each fuel injector mounted in each of the at least one section of the unitary fusion confinement device is operable to receive a fuel from outside the hollow toroidal interior chamber and operable to inject the fuel into the hollow toroidal interior chamber;
• wherein the fuel is a mixture of a helium3 and a deuterium, wherein the mixture of the helium3 and the deuterium is lean in deuterium in order to reduce fusion between atoms of the deuterium that produce harmful protons;
• a gas injector in each of the at least one section of the unitary fusion confinement device, wherein each gas injector mounted in each of the at least one section of the unitary fusion confinement device is operable to receive a gas from outside the hollow toroidal interior chamber and operable to inject the gas into the hollow toroidal interior chamber;
• wherein the gas is argon, helium or air;
• a gas sensor mounted in each of the at least one section of the unitary fusion confinement device, wherein each gas sensor mounted in each of the at least one section of the unitary fusion confinement device is operable to determine a composition of the gas and a pressure of the gas inside the hollow toroidal interior chamber and operable to transmit an indication of the composition and the pressure of the gas in the hollow toroidal interior chamber;
• and
• a controller that is electrically coupled to the electrical source, the gas injector, a vacuum pump, a vacuum port, an electrical switch, the gas sensor, a pre-ionizer and the fuel injector that generates and transmits commands to the gas injector to achieve and maintain a predetermined composition of the gas and predetermined pressure of the gas, and that determines a pattern of the plurality of pulses of the electrical energy from the electrical source to a first electrical conductor and that transmits the pattern of plurality of pulses of the electrical energy, wherein each of the plurality of pulses of the electrical energy is about a square wave, having a duration of 1 millisecond and having a pulse strength of approximately 0.5 megagausses.