Strong focusing megatron
OwnerRonald W. Landauinventor
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Abstract
A strong focusing megatron has a hollow toroidal chamber in which a plasma of isotopes of hydrogen support an orbital current driven by a changing magnetic field whose amplitude is controllably variable and whose direction is generally coaxial with the major axis (z-axis) of the toroidal chamber while the current is stabilized by a strong focusing magnetic field of alternately focusing and defocusing sections whose field is generally in the region of the toroidal chamber.
Claims15
A fushion machine comprising a hollow toroidal chamber, a gas of ionized isotopes of hydrogen in said chamber, means for establishing an inducing magnetic field whose amplitude is controllably variable and which has a component perpendicular to the plane of said hollow toroidal chamber and said component being coaxial with the axis of revolution of said hollow toroidal chamber so that an increasing circular plasma electric current is induced in said hollow toroidal chamber as said inducing magnetic field increases, and generating means for generating a strong focusing magnetic field whose amplitude is controllably variable to be proportional to the plasma current and which is toroidally disposed about said axis of revolution and enters on one side of said hollow toroidal cylinder, passes through said hollow toroidal chamber and exits on the other side of said hollow toroidal cylinder in a direction parallel to said axis of revolution.
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