Looperator – Nuclear Fusion Reactor with Spherical Magnetic Field – Harnessing Plasma Confinement in a Fusion Reactor
Abstract:
With its potential to provide clean, abundant energy under minimal environmental impact, thermo-nuclear fusion promises to revolutionize the energy sector. Today’s thermonuclear fusion projects follow two types of reactors, Tokamak [1] and Stellarator [2]. Both are very promising, yet they present a few challenges to resolve to achieve long-term stable confinement. The present article describes the “Looperator” [3], a novel concept that lays ground to stable confinement of the reactor’s plasma volume. It states that a spheric magnetic field combined with the in trinsic quantum mechanical properties of electrons and ions in its plasma eliminate fusion reactor instability due to harmonic motion of its constituting particles. The article describes a modular structure with a constellation of electromagnetic elements that generate the magnetic field creating a plasma volume with a double-helical shape. The fourfold reversal of particle spin within one revolution of the total plasma volume maintains electrons and ions tightly bound to their orbital trajectories. The total number gyration radii of the charged ions in motion around their respective magnetic field lines determines the total number of transformation spheres that exist within the given diameter of the tubular plasma volume. This novel approach exploring quantum mechanical spin and angular momentum of particles within a spherical magnetic field promises a breakthrough in resolving plasma confinement limitations in fusion reactors. The reactor features a spherical magnetic field derived from the Poincaré group of the Lorentz transformation, translation and rotation, generating a double-helix configuration of the plasma volume.
