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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2014
Applicant:
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD (US);
Inventor:
Thomas John McGuire, Palmdale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G21B 1/05 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G21B 1/05 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a fusion reactor includes two internal magnetic coils suspended within an enclosure, a center magnetic coil coaxial with the two internal magnetic coils and located proximate to a midpoint of the enclosure, a plurality of encapsulating magnetic coils coaxial with the internal magnetic coils, and two mirror magnetic coil coaxial with the internal magnetic coils. The encapsulating magnetic coils preserve the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) stability of the fusion reactor by maintaining a magnetic wall that prevents plasma within the enclosure from expanding.