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mheslep
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Can anyone please suggest a comparative pro/con review of the various fusion approaches for power generation? In those approaches I'd include:
tokamaks,
stellarators,
spheromaks,
pinches (Z, focus, etc)
-ICF
laser, ion beam
-Other
inertial electrostatic
Beam-beam FRC
?
Obviously the available information in each area is deep but I've not found a good comparison of the physics/engineering issues against one another, or at least an attempt at using some kind of common metrics. I had in mind something like the following, in the few areas where I've done some background:
tokamaks, etc: thermal magnetic confinement thus limited to DD, DT fuels due to Bremstralung losses at higher temperatures required for aneutronic fuels. Therefore neutron loads a challenging problem for the toroidal geometry ...
IEC - claims of mono energetic operation but analysis to date shows IEC quickly thermalizes and then realizes same problems as above.
etc.
Mark
tokamaks,
stellarators,
spheromaks,
pinches (Z, focus, etc)
-ICF
laser, ion beam
-Other
inertial electrostatic
Beam-beam FRC
?
Obviously the available information in each area is deep but I've not found a good comparison of the physics/engineering issues against one another, or at least an attempt at using some kind of common metrics. I had in mind something like the following, in the few areas where I've done some background:
tokamaks, etc: thermal magnetic confinement thus limited to DD, DT fuels due to Bremstralung losses at higher temperatures required for aneutronic fuels. Therefore neutron loads a challenging problem for the toroidal geometry ...
IEC - claims of mono energetic operation but analysis to date shows IEC quickly thermalizes and then realizes same problems as above.
etc.
Mark
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