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It was tested charging and discharging, measured the capacitance. Also, it was made an unloaded target shot that was performed at 100% of the capacitor bank capacity. The image resolution is low due it was taken using a high-speed camera. It can be seen the detonation of the reactor after the compression. In the early tests of the Pulsotron-1A and 1B Z-pinch machines, some confinement chamber survived to the discharge and could be reused, but it was impossible after overcoming 60 gigapascal pressure. In the test it was checked some safety systems and also it was acquired the shot performance but the time scale mustRead More →

There is a collection of reactors that could generate ignition in different configurations The last one is designed to try confination of 100% of the alpha particles to make a more useful and compact reactor without external energy harvesting coils, but a lot of new simulations will be done to see if it is possible. This is the result of simulation of the new SIX reactor  Read More →

In order to sustain the reaction, it is needed to generate more energy than injected. one method is using created alpha particles to heat up the fuel. As long as >2.2MeV particles are very difficult to confine, only a few of them remain inside, so the confinement must be increased.Read More →

Here is a short simulation of one of the 145000 Tokamak-like simulated reactors: This impressive video hides a real hard work to deal with extremely high speed and high accuracy simulation of thousand reactors, 24000 of them advise to reach ignitionRead More →

A 63 times improvement is reached from an initial configuration The achievement was done using the step solver to go through 5200 simulations In the following table appears the result of the simulations, where the X-axis is the simulation number and the Y-axis is the effective reactor area (in square meters): In the following figure can be seen one of the 5200 simulations with 196 particles flowing inside the tokamak: The real effective area must be much lower as it has seen in one of the simulations due the real plasma occupancy inside the torus is far to be  uniform as can be seen inRead More →

A solver is used over a simulator to simulate Tokamak devices to look for the possibility to use them in aneutronic fusions in the combustion chamber of the Miranda reactors. In order to do that a giant magnetic field must be used to confine 550keV particles. In order to simulate thousand configurations, it is used 4 threads over C++ with improvements like using elliptic integrals to increase the simulation speed The reactor cross-section divided by collision probability is too high so a lot of simulations must be run to increase the performance. It is improved the Aeff that is the averaged reactor section by usingRead More →

The confination coils must confinate the not fused ions at fusion chamber during ignition pulse. It was designed a new coils setup that runs under the kinetics coil simulator. There are several designs that allow confining of all the ions, as can be seen in the simulator log:Read More →

Accordingly simulations using the 4th simulator, version 3 and using the kinetics module designed for magnetic simulators #4 (version 14), it was stated that the containment of the fusion particles reaches almost 100% during the establishment of the magnetic field. This could help because increase confirmation time over 100 microseconds would allow reaching ignition conditions without enhancement methods (that could be added after). The data exposed in the excel table were calculated using a two coil system, where it was used the expected confination time. Here are the simulations for only 40 particles in one of the proposed configurations:Read More →

It is simulated using a new kinetic simulator the Miranda reactor in configuration named 3N30x0945 using protons over 500 keV. It is stated a margin of the 35% over the energy range to confine the particles. The Larmor radius will be under 40% of the thin plasma chamber.  Read More →