Operationally confined nuclear fusion system

• US 4,189,346 A
• Filed: 03/16/1978
• Issued: 02/19/1980
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/1978
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: William S. Jarnagin
• Original Assignee: William S. Jarnagin
• Inventors: Jarnagin, William S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Engle, Samuel W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Cangialosi, S. A.
• Application Number:
  US05/887,442
• Time in Patent Office: 705 Days
• Field of Search: 328/234, 313/62, 315/111.4, 315/111.7, 176/1, 176/2, 176/3, 176/5
• US Class Current: 376/107
• CPC Class Codes: G21B 1/15 Particle injectors for producing thermonuclear fusion reactions, e.g. pellet injectors
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 30/10 Nuclear fusion reactors

Abstract

This invention consists of a system for generating clean controllable inexpensive electrical power by nuclear fusion (not fission) of light weight atoms and/or isotopes of hydrogen such as deuterium. Fusionable ions are accelerated head-on from many directions through the middle of a reaction chamber. Such ions are produced by especially designed cyclotrons aimed at one another. Since the orbital motion and escape velocity of an ion is controlled by the magnetic field of its originating cyclotron, said ion cannot hit the outer wall of the opposite magnet (which is of equal strength). Hence the system'"'"'s plasma is operationally contained. The system can produce plasmas of practically any desired average velocity hence temperature; and in densities approaching 10^20'"'"'s per cc at the center of the reaction chamber. These conditions are abundantly ample for practical production of fusion.

Claims

1. A ring cyclotron nuclear fusion system comprising a plurality of annular rings of varying diameter joined to form a spherical reaction chamber;

each of said rings containing;

(a) a plurality of spherical wedge electromagnets of C-shape cross section, said electromagnets having lips and being continuously connected around said ring;

(b) flat annular ring electrodes located between the poles of said C-shaped electromagnets, said electrodes being of different diameters and positioned so as to form a gap there between;

(c) a plurality of pin hole sized injection ports along the gap, each of said ports connected to an ion injector beam of at least about 10¹³ ions/cc;

(d) focus coils located at the innermost lips of said C-shaped electomagnets (e) charged outer rim means;

(f) output tubes and a high frequency kilovolt power supply connected to said electrodes wherein low energy ions are injected into the gap, accelerated by said electrodes so as to follow spiral or helical pathways until achieving sufficient energy for fusion where upon said ions are deflected out of orbit by said charged outer rim means and said focus coils so as to form beams, directed to the center of the spherical reaction chamber, and some of said beams colliding head-on with other of said beams and noncolliding ions passing on across the reaction chamber into other C-shaped electromagnets and thence spiral back toward the middle ad infinitum or until the ions collide with one another or the apparatus.