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A new, more complex nuclear age has begun. Echoing the tensions of the Cold War amid rapidly evolving nuclear and radiological threats, preparedness in the modern age is a contest of scientific innovation. The Research and Development Directorate (RD) at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) is charged with winning this contest.
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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 20 | Number 4 | December 1991 | Pages 873-878
Magnetic Fusion Reactors/Beam-Driven Systems | doi.org/10.13182/FST91-A11946952
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Tokamak reactors burning advanced fuels must operate at high plasma densities and temperatures. Under these conditions large bootstrap currents can be generated with modest externally driven seed currents. Large total currents give rise to long energy confinement times and a safe ignition margin. The paper discusses high pressure DT–, DD– and D3He–tokamak reactor concepts based on the bootstrap drive of the toroidal current.