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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.
Yasuyuki Nakao, Takuro Honda, Hideki Nakashima, Yoshinori Honda, Kazuhiko Kudo
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 22 | Number 1 | August 1992 | Pages 66-72
Technical Paper | D-3He/Fusion Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/FST92-A30055
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The feasibility of using D-3He fuel in inertial confinement fusion is examined by using a hydrodynamics code that includes neutron and charged-particle transport routines. The use of a small amount of deuterium-tritium (D-T) ignitor is indispensable. Burn simulations are made for quasi-isobaric D-T/D-3He pellet models compressed to 5000 times the liquid density. Substantial fuel gains (∼500) are obtained from pellets having parameters ρRD-T = 3 g/cm2 and ρRtotal = 14 g/cm2 and a central spark temperature of 5 keV. The amount of driver energy needed to achieve these gains is estimated to be ∼30 MJ when the coupling efficiency is 10%. The driver energy requirement can be reduced by using spin-polarized D-T and D-3He fuels.
