Fusion Particle Ring

This paper summarizes several studies of fusion reactors based on the compact torus (CT). A wide variety of reactor configurations can be projected within present understanding of the possible types of CT and their macroscopic stability and confinement properties. Three types of CT are considered here, the field-reversed-configuration having B oroidal 0, the Spheromak with 0, and CT s formed with particle rings. 

Particle Ring Fusion by R.N. SUDAN, in present proceedings. 

Peters, J.-M., Walsh, M. J., and Franke, W. W. An abundant and ubiquitous homo-oligomeric ring-shaped ATPase particle related to the putative vesicle fusion proteins Sec 18p and NSF. EMBOJ. 1990, 9, 1757-1767. 

It is likely that the molecule is formed by the fusion of small aggregates of carbon particles, initially forming linear structures, which close into rings (Figure 2.44). aggregates, when absolutely pure, have been shown by X-ray diffraction to have a face-centerd cubic structure, whereas C70 has a hexagonal structure. 

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