Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

Cary Brett Forest

Jay Keith Anderson

John P Wallace

Robert W Harvey

Yuri V Petrov

Jonathan Pizzo

Oliver Schmitz

Jan Egedal

Douglass A Endrizzi

Jeremiah Kirch

An apparatus for generating a highly energetic plasma employs a low-energy neutral beam injected into a magnetically contained mirror plasma to produce plasma ions boosted in energy to fusion levels by a coordinated radiofrequency field.

High-energy plasma generator using radio-frequency and neutral beam power

A direct converter for an axisymmetric mirror confinement system provides a set of radially symmetric vanes charged to capture ions escaping along the axis of the confinement system and to convert their energy to electrical power. An electron trap positioned before the charged vanes uses a magnetic field to divert and collect electrons, separating them from the ions, and may support a radial electric field providing plasma control. The charged vanes may be constructed of or have a coating of a getter material absorbing neutrals derived from those ions after capture.

Direct energy converter for axisymmetric mirror fusion reactor

A divertor for system supporting plasma for fusion employs permanent magnets providing far weaker magnetic field strength than conventionally used in cryogenic magnetic systems through an ability to place the permanent magnets in close proximity to the plasma containment volume.

Plasma generator with permanent magnet divertor

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Madison, WI, United States of America

Cary Brett Forest