Reply To: Proliferation?

[jamesr]

A couple of points…

Although you mention briefly ion scattering, I don’t think you appreciate the stability (or lack thereof) of the conditions you are trying to achieve.

You will get wave-particle interactions, coupling to all sorts of kink and ballooning modes. The plasma instabilities will grow on a much faster time-scale than can be controlled, and hit the walls within a microsecond.

A linear design would have to be hundreds of kilometres long, and a ‘cyclic’ design is essentially a Tokamak, ie governed by all the same stability criteria of q-profile, Troyon limit etc.

Also the acceleration of ion/electron beams to high energies is not efficient enough – you will never get the Q number you claim.