Fast-Ion and Alpha-Particle Confinement in a Compact Spherical-Tokamak Breeder
Fast-alpha and fusion-product confinement in the deuterium-helium-3 tandem-mirror burner. The mirror-trapped charged products and their loss-cone dynamics set the ash accumulation and the axial power that the direct-energy-conversion and alpha-channeling systems must handle. Reported with its confinement caveats; physics only, no economics.
Authors
- Priyanca Ford (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0395-1752)
- G L Kulcinski
Institutions
- Fusion for Energy (ES)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-08-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22132106
- Primary Topic
- Fusion and Plasma Physics Studies
- Type
- preprint