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Title: | Interactive Muon Catalyzed and Intertial Confinement Fusion |
Authors: | Cripps, Ronald Gregory |
Advisor: | Harms, A.A. |
Department: | Nuclear Engineering |
Keywords: | Engineering;Nuclear Engineering;Engineering |
Publication Date: | Jul-1993 |
Abstract: | <p>Energetic viability calculations of nuclear fusion energy systems based on two distinct approaches to a symbiotic combination of Muon Catalyzed Fusion (µcf) and Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF) have been performed. The first approach involves a deuterium-tritium ICF pellet ignited by muon catalyzed fusion heating; the second approach is based on the energy generated by µCF reactions in deuterium-tritium compressed to high density. Viability evaluations rely upon modeling of identified critical energy gain parameters for energy systems based upon each of the µCF-ICF system and developing muon catalyzed reaction models in conditions found in high density compressions. An energy system based on µCF in compressed deuterium-tritium was found to be non-viable due primarily to the sharp decrease in the muon induced fusion rate for temperatures greater than 40 eV. The viability of a fusion energy system based on the µCF triggered spark ignition is favorable provided that technology can be developed which allows for the deposition of sufficient quantities of muons into a very small volume within a very short duration.</p> |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/7443 |
Identifier: | opendissertations/2721 3704 1401483 |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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