| abstract |
There are disclosed apparatuses for generating plasmas at thermonuclear temperatures by employing radiation pressure to accelerate suitable reactant particles to a relative velocity at which their mutual collision can generate the required temperature of the nuclei within the time that one particle passes through the other. The orbital electrons and the nuclei will be heated essentially equally rapidly, so that, even with a relatively simple magnetic confinement field, electronic instabilities prior to thermonuclear fusion may be avoided. |