Published 1989
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Characteristics of an electron-beam rocket pellet accelerator
Description
An electron-beam rocket pellet accelerator has been designed, built, assembled, and tested as a proof-of-principle (POP) apparatus. The main goal of accelerators based on this concept is to use intense electron-beam heating and ablation of a hydrogen propellant stick to accelerate deuterium and/or tritium pellets to ultrahigh speeds (10 to 20 km/s) for plasma fueling of next generation fusion devices such as the International Thermonuclear Engineering Reactor (ITER). The POP apparatus is described, and initial results of pellet acceleration experiments are presented. Conceptual ultrahigh-speed pellet accelerators are discussed. 14 refs., 7 figs
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- IEEE thirteenth symposium on fusion engineering. Proceedings: Volume 2
- Imprint Pagination
- 785 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 1230-1235.
- Report number
- CONF-891007--Vol.2
Conference
- Title
- 13. IEEE symposium on fusion engineering.
- Dates
- 2-6 Oct 1989.
- Place
- Knoxville, TN (USA).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 22024604
- Subject category
- S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Non-conventional Literature
- Descriptors DEI
- ABLATION; ACCELERATION; ACCELERATORS; DEUTERIUM; ELECTRON BEAMS; ELECTRON GUNS; FUEL PELLETS; HEATING; HYDROGEN; ITER TOKAMAK; PELLET INJECTION; SPECIFICATIONS; THERMONUCLEAR FUELS; THERMONUCLEAR REACTOR FUELING; TRITIUM
- Descriptors DEC
- BEAMS; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CLOSED PLASMA DEVICES; ELEMENTS; FUELS; HYDROGEN ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; LEPTON BEAMS; LIGHT NUCLEI; NONMETALS; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; PARTICLE BEAMS; RADIOISOTOPES; STABLE ISOTOPES; THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES; TOKAMAK DEVICES; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES