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Christmas Night
Twas the night before Christmas when all through the houseNo electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged in by the chimney with careWith the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
T.E. Luzzi, S.Z. Fixler, V.S. Calia
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 2 | September 1983 | Pages 1467-1472
Power Conversion, Instrumentation, and Control | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A23063
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A thermal and structural conceptual design and an analysis of tritium permeation are presented for the grid tubes and collector plate of the interim MARS tandem mirror reactor. Designs are presented for two thermal recovery concepts, a water coolant with low outlet temperature and gaseous coolant with high outlet temperature. System analyses were conducted for the grids. For the grids both radiative and actively cooled schemes were investigated. Three water cooled grid tube point designs were studied. For the liquid cooled collector, five coolant channel configurations were considered. A reference design was chosen for the grids and collecter plates.