Fuel, advanced, fusion

Alternate or "advanced" fuel (AF) fusion—see Table I—would employ either deuterium-based (D/B) fuels such as catalyzed-deuterium (Cat-D) and D- He, or proton-based (p/6) fuels such as p-°Li or p-l B.[6-ll] While the p/B fuels are desirable in order to reduce or eliminate "parasitic" D-D reactions, burning such fuels appears exceedingly difficult.[9,10] The combination of high-Z and high ignition temperature (T > 200 keV) charac-... 

G. W. Shuy, "Advanced Fusion Fuel Cycles and Fusion Reaction... 

J. Rand McNally and K. E. Rothe, "Advanced Fusion Fuels - A... 

IGNITION EXPERIMENTS WITH ADVANCED FUSION FUELS... 

All over Sverdlovsk, trucks fire their engines. Deuterium fuel, heated to a hundred-million degrees, undergoes fusion modified containment fields are weakened to allow directed plasma leakage. Unleashed, the fusion reaction is unsustainable and dies in a second plasma jets have already streamed into advancing tank columns at temperatures approaching solar. 

J. R. Roth, The Impact of Engineering Constraints on the Feasibility of Advanced Fuel Fusion Reactors, Nucl. Techn. Fusion, 2 (1982) 29. 

The recovery of naphthalene by crystallization has grown in importance, as a result of the advances in crystallization technologies and increased fuel costs. From the energy point of view, the marked advantage of crystallization consists in the fact that crystallization is carried out in the temperature range between 20 and 95 °C. A further asset is that the latent heat of fusion of naphthalene is lower than the latent heat of vaporization by a factor of 2.5. 

Since most of the fusion power output from an advanced-fuel reactor is in the form of bremsstrahlung x-rays, the heat load on the rings and on the first wall must be considered carefully. The... 

Economic considerations combined with the need for a near-term return for the investment in fusion development may force considerations of development of fusion fuel factories. Remarkably, advanced-fuel fusion appears to play a vital role if this direction is pursued. Not only does SCD (and for nearer term, SCD-T) appear to offer a superior hybrid, but it simultaneously offers the potential to develop pure fusion in the form of attractive D-- He satellite reactors. Indeed, this combination of... 

G. H. Miley, et al., "High-Efficiency Advanced-Fuel Fusion... 

Greenspan, "Confinement Approaches for Burning Alternate Fuels," Fourth Topical Meeting, Technology of Controlled Nuclear Fusion, King of Prussia, PA (1980), p. 270. Rikihisa, H. Nakashima, and M. Ohta, "Characteristics of Advanced-Fuel Cycle for Base-Satellite Fusion Reactor System," Proc. 2nd Int. Conf. on Emerging Concepts in Nuclear Energy, Lausanne, Switzerland (April 1980). 

H. Miley, "Tritium Implications of Advanced Fuel Fusion Cycles," ANS National Topical Meeting, Tritium Technology in Fission, Fusion and Isotopic Applications, Dayton,... 

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