Role of a helium catalyzed process and deuteron beam radiation simultaneously on the D3He target to create supplementary fusion energy

Abstract

The energy enhancement required for fusion through ICF can be achieved through fast ignition as a good method. The use of deuteron beams and injected into the fusion plasma containing D³He increases the amount of fusion reactor fuel and the deuteron beam causes the fast ignition. The incident deuteron beam stopping power in the desired fusion plasma is higher than that of the electron. Therefore, they can create a higher energy density by stopping at a smaller volume of fuel, and it produces supplementary energy. Note that another advantage of using a deuteron beam is that it reduces the energy of the required laser beams. This issue can play a significant role in increasing the efficiency of commercial fusion reactors. In this work, we have calculated the amount of deposited energy or the produced supplementary energy due to deuteron beam radiation and performing fusion reactions. However, in the ICF approach, using pure D³He fuel is impractical due to the excessive requirement for ignition energy. Therefore, a small amount of DT fuel is necessary as an “igniter”. Since the D³He reaction does not produce any neutrons and the fuel sources of the DD fusion reaction are available in sufficient quantity in Earth, it is expected that these reactions can be used as a source of clean energy. The process of helium catalyzed D³He is the primary focus of advanced fuel fusion reactors. In this article, we determined the fusion energy gain, G, from the solving of time-dependent non-linear point kinetic differential equations coupled together for two processes with and without helium catalyzed process. The results of this study have shown that G gradually increases with increasing temperature, and at a temperature of 190 keV, the value of G reaches its maximum value, so that at this temperature, for the two states without and with the helium catalyzed process, the G value reaches about 20 and 110, respectively, which shows that considering the helium catalyzed process simultaneously deuteron beam radiation provides access to supplementary energy and finally G increases.