Fuel Pellet Alignment in Heavy-Ion Inertial Fusion Reactor

TL;DR

This paper proposes a magnetic correction method to improve pellet alignment accuracy in heavy-ion inertial fusion reactors, addressing issues like gravity and gas drag to enhance pellet injection robustness.

Contribution

It introduces a novel magnetic correction technique specifically designed to reduce pellet alignment errors in heavy-ion inertial fusion systems.

Findings

Magnetic correction effectively reduces pellet alignment errors.

The method enhances the robustness of pellet injection systems.

Simulation results confirm the method's effectiveness.

Abstract

In inertial confinement fusion, the scientific issues include the generation and transport of driver energy, the pellet design, the uniform target implosion physics, the realistic nuclear fusion reactor design, etc. In this paper, we present a pellet injection into a power reactor in heavy ion inertial fusion. We employ a magnetic correction method to reduce the pellet alignment error in heavy ion inertial fusion reactor chamber, including the gravity, the reactor gas drag force and the injection errors. We found that the magnetic correction device proposed in this paper is effective to construct a robust pellet injection system with a sufficiently small pellet alignment error.