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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 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 an enclosure, an open-field magnetic system comprising one or more internal magnetic coils suspended within the enclosure, and one or more encapsulating magnetic coils coaxial with the one or more internal magnetic coils of the open-field magnetic system. The one or more encapsulating magnetic coils form a magnetosphere around the open-field magnetic system. The open-field magnetic system and the one or more encapsulating magnetic coils, when supplied with electrical currents, form magnetic fields for confining plasma within the enclosure.