The Z-pinch configuration offers the promise of a compact fusion device owing to its simple geometry, unity beta, and absence of external magnetic field coils.In addition to a robust experimental program pushing plasma performance toward breakeven conditions, Zap Energy has parallel programs developing...
Neutrons are subatomic particles that are created in costly and hazardous fission reactors and are the magic ingredient needed to produce energy to heat the water that spins the turbines to create the needed electricity and to pro...
Fusion is the energy source found in the sun, stars and thermonuclear weapons. NIF’s ICF experiments focus 192 laser beams on a small target to compress and heat partially frozen hydrogen isotopes inside a fuel capsule, creating an implosion replicating the conditions of pressure ...
The first attempts to obtain nuclear fusion were the Z-pinch (2): an electric discharge of great power in a gas causes an intense heating and a strong compression. The easiest nuclear fusion can be obtained by this way with a gas mixture composed of deuterium and tritium. It is obviously ...
Z-pinch creates a unique state of matter, by passing a very large current through a uniquely designed load that compresses it to an extremely dense and hot matter called plasma. The goal has been to achieve a net gain in controlled thermonuclear fusion energy. Instabilities normally disrupt ...
compact fusion reactorThe sheared-flow-stabilized (SFS) Z-pinch is a promising confinement concept for the development of a compact fusion reactor. The Z-pinch has been theoretically and experimentally shown to be stable to magnetohydrodynamic modes when sufficient radial shear of the axial flow is...
The High Density Z-Pinch as a Fusion ReactorRecent experimental results on a compressional Z-pinch and on a laser-initiated gas-embedded Z-pinch show considerable enhancement of MHD stability over conventional theory. It is thought that this...doi:10.1007/978-1-4613-3470-5_14Haines, M. G....
A Staged Z Pinch will amplify energy in a target plasma in discreet steps of decreasing time, leading to ignition and break-even fusion in a simple z pinch. The configuration could be a cylindrical-plasma shell, initiated from a wire arr... P Ney,HU Rahman,FJ Wessel,... 被引量: 0发...
This research is being conducted on SNL'S.Z facility that is capable of driving peak currents of 20 MA in z-pinch loads producing implosion velocities as high as 7.5X 107 cm/s, x-ray energies approaching 2 MJ, and x-ray powers exceeding 200 TW. This paper will discuss each of these ...
Volume 39, Issue 2P2 Linked Neutronics and Hydrodynamics Calc ... Search in:This JournalAnywhere Advanced search Fusion TechnologyVolume 39, 2001 -Issue 2P2: Proceedings of the Fourteenth Tropical Meeting on The Technology of Fusion Energy. October 15-19, 2000. Park City, Utah Journal...