title: Colliding beam fusion reactor
abstract: Recent results with Tokamak experiments provide insights into the problem of magnetic confinement. They demonstrate how to avoid anomalous transport and thus solve the major problems of Tokamak reactors: size, the production of 14-megaelectron volt neutrons, and maintenance. An alternate confinement system, the field-reversed configuration, confines beams of protons and boron-11. For the proton-boron-11 fusion reaction, the fusion products are all charged particles for which direct conversion is feasible and neutron flux is negligible.
authors.affiliation: N. Rostoker and M. W. Binderbauer are with the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-4575, USA. H. J. Monkhorst is with the Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-8435, USA.
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Rostoker
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Binderbauer
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Monkhorst