Nuclear fusion reactor
OwnerMerrill P. Buschinventor
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Abstract
The present invention is a nuclear fusion reactor serving to contain a totally organized tritium-deuterium plasma by guiding the self-bombarding particles in a resonating path of a particular wavelength and frequency, similar to a radio wave. Under these conditions the electrons tend to remain cooler, which reduces plasma radiation energy losses. Energy may be added to the plasma by axially distributed oscillators of the proper frequency, raising the plasma to ignition temperature and densities. Finally the ignited plasma directs its high energy neutrons into strategically located lithium blankets and the ionic energy levels are controlled by causing the plasma to generate an alternating electric current. Various types of alternate fusion reactions are briefly considered.
Claims4
A magnetic fusion reactor comprising,
- a hollow metallic wave guide, closed upon itself, having a rectangular cross section and containing an electromagnetically resonating, pulsating, self-bombarding plasma in a vacuum,
- a plurality of equally spaced probes extending to the inner surface of said wave guide and producing a type of transverse electromagnetic coupling with said resonating plasma, with said plasma acting as an internal coaxial cable,
- said wave guide being vertically positioned between two extended opposite-hand electromagnets which are closed upon themselves and having horseshoe-type cross sections with horizontally oriented bases, and with their internal openings having tear-shaped cross sections containing longitudinal superconducting winding means and coming to a central point such that oppositely-directed magnetic fields are produced vertically in close proximity throughout the entire extent of said wave guide, upwardly directed through one side of said wave guide and downwardly directed through the opposite side,
- a plurality of equally spaced, ferromagnetic by-pass vanes extending from the vertically oriented surfaces on each side of said opposite-hand electromagnetics, said vanes sloping outward and upward or downward respectively and being spaced to pass equidistantly between opposite-hand components, said vanes curving inward past the vertical midpoint of said wave guide and terminating with their end surfaces parallel to the vertical surfaces of said wave guide, and thus producing narrow, concentrated, curving magnetic fields interspaced with much wider, weaker thicknesses of said oppositely-directed vertical magnetic fields across each corner of the cross section of said rectangular wave guide throughout its entire extent.
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