Published 1958
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Report
Engineering aspects of a thermonuclear power plant
Description
The plasma containment problem, common to all fusion reactors, is assumed in the present paper to have been solved. It is absolutely necessary that this phase of fusion reactor development be satisfactorily completed before any subsequent work can be done; and since the present paper is a gross economics-engineering evaluation of the D-D reactor it is quite reasonable to assume that such a reactor can be built. The results derived below are limited by our present knowledge concerning steady state containment of a plasma so that a large solenoidal magnet surrounding the reactor chamber is assumed to be an essential constituent of the power generator. Future related discoveries could play a large part in altering the conclusions derived here
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Proceedings of the second United Nations international conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy. V. 31. Theoretical and experimental aspects of controlled nuclear fusion
- Imprint Pagination
- 400 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 257-262
- Report number
- INIS-XU--021
Conference
- Title
- 2. United Nations international conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy
- Dates
- 1-13 Sep 1958
- Place
- Geneva (Switzerland)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Nations (UN)
- Country of Input or Organization
- United Nations (UN)
- INIS RN
- 39082417
- Subject category
- S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- CONTAINMENT; D-D REACTORS; ECONOMICS; ENGINEERING; EVALUATION; MAGNETS; PLASMA; STEADY-STATE CONDITIONS; THERMONUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
- Descriptors DEC
- EQUIPMENT; POWER PLANTS; THERMAL POWER PLANTS; THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS
Optional Information
- Notes
- 2 refs, 5 figs, 1 tab
- Secondary number(s)
- P--2358-USA