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Volume 155, Number 21 (May 22, 1999)

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Fusion fuel zips to core through back door

Injecting nuclear fuel pellets through the inside or top walls of a doughnut-shaped reactor increases the plasma density at the reactor's high-temperature core.

Further Readings:

Lang, P.T., et al. 1997. High-efficiency plasma refuelling by pellet injection from the magnetic high-field side into ASDEX upgrade. Physical Review Letters 79(Aug. 25):1487.

For more information about fusion fuel pellet injection research, go to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Web site at http://www.ornl.gov/fed/pellet/Ornlpell.html.

Sources:

Michael J. Gouge
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
P.O. Box 2009
Mailstop Code 8071
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-8071

Wayne A. Houlberg
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
P.O. Box 2009
Mailstop Code 8071
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-8071

Peter T. Lang
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik
Boltzmannstrasse 2
85748 Garching
Germany