A quasi-pulsed FRC
deuterium-
deuterium fusion reactor and its self-sustaining
nuclear fuel cycle steady-state power generation method are disclosed. The reactor comprises a linear
vacuum chamber, an FRC
plasma formation zone, a collision
fusion zone, a conical transition section, a
plasma formation coil, a fast compression coil, a
magnetic mirror coil
assembly, a
deuterium-
tritium feeding
system, a zoned
vacuum pumping system, and a
pulsed power control system. The
magnetic mirror coil
assembly is located near the collision
fusion zone in the conical transition section. Within a
single pulse cycle, it sequentially executes four functional
modes: compression assistance,
magnetic mirror reflection, magnetic
bottle confinement, and
recovery attenuation. During the
recovery attenuation mode, it is reused as a
direct energy conversion induction coil. The
operation mode employs a trace amount of
tritium to catalyze deuterium-deuterium fusion.
Tritium and
helium-3 are confined to participate in the secondary reaction through magnetic mirror confinement. Between pulses, the difference in
chemical adsorption of
tritium and the difference in cryogenic condensation of
helium-3 are utilized to achieve selective
recovery of the two components, forming a quasi-pulsed self-sustaining operation. The power is then converted into steady-state electrical power and connected to the grid via a rectification-storage-
inverter system, realizing the internal recycling of tritium and
helium-3.