High fusion power gain in a tandem mirror

[摘要] The article titled ‘A new simpler way to obtain high fusionpower gain in tandem mirrors’ by Fowler, Moir and Simonen[1] contains an interesting development of an axisymmetrictandem mirror. The proposed arrangement contains a longaxisymmetric mirror with a mirror ratio of R ∼ 10 that contains the fusing plasma bounded and at both ends by axisymmetric plugging cells which are themselves bounded at eachend by the axisymmetric kinetic stabilizers [2–4]. The axisymmetry of the central cell eliminates resonant transport [5] andthe expanded fan that exits the kinetic stabilizers eliminatessecondary electron energy losses [6].

[关键词] instability;tandem mirror;fusion