METHOD TO INCREASE EFFICIENCY OF LASER THERMONUCLEAR SYNTHESIS ENERGY CONVERSION AND DEVICE FOR ITS REALISATION Russian patent published in 2016 - IPC G21B1/00 

FIELD: power engineering.

SUBSTANCE: in the proposed method an absorbing coolant generates a solid curtain around a source of ionising radiation, which is realised by means of the proposed device. The device comprises a body (1) of a reaction chamber, where laser beams (2) are introduced via windows (3), an absorbing coolant layer (4), the first wall (5), focusing on a thermonuclear target (6), delivered by a target delivery mechanism (7), fixed in an input cylindrical channel (8), which is followed by a spherical channel (9) and an output cylindrical channel (10). After initiation of a thermonuclear reaction, ionizing radiation passes via the first wall, being absorbed in the coolant layer, and further may not leave the reaction chamber, being spread along trajectories of laser radiation.

EFFECT: increased efficiency of conversion of energy of a flow of ionizing radiation released in process of a thermonuclear reaction into thermal energy in a reactor with inertial plasma retention.

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