Rostoker N, Binderbauer MW, Monkhorst HJ
N. Rostoker and M. W. Binderbauer are with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-4575, USA. H. J. Monkhorst is with the Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-8435, USA.
Science. 1997 Nov 21;278(5342):1419-22. doi: 10.1126/science.278.5342.1419.
Recent results with Tokamak experiments provide insights into the problem of magnetic confinement. They demonstrate how to avoid anomalous transport and thus solve the major problems of Tokamak reactors: size, the production of 14-megaelectron volt neutrons, and maintenance. An alternate confinement system, the field-reversed configuration, confines beams of protons and boron-11. For the proton-boron-11 fusion reaction, the fusion products are all charged particles for which direct conversion is feasible and neutron flux is negligible.
托卡马克实验的最新结果为磁约束问题提供了见解。这些结果展示了如何避免反常输运，从而解决托卡马克反应堆的主要问题：尺寸、14兆电子伏特中子的产生以及维护。另一种约束系统——场反向配置，能够约束质子束和硼-11束。对于质子-硼-11聚变反应，聚变产物都是带电粒子，对于这些粒子，直接转换是可行的，并且中子通量可以忽略不计。
