The Aegis Forward-Base Burner: Q_E Closure, Plug Requirement, and Mirror Confinement in an Islanded Low-Neutron D–³He Tandem Mirror
Priyanca Ford; G L Kulcinski · 2026 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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Abstract
Aegis is the forward-base configuration of the Kronos deuterium–helium-3 tandem-mirror burner: a fixed, hardened, grid-independent installation that turns an aneutronic-dominated fusion source into firm electrical power for a defence site without a fuel-convoy tail. This paper is a comprehensive, review-article treatment of the integrated physics case for that machine, and it separates, throughout, what is robust from what is conditional. At the frozen design point the plant reaches an engineering gain =1.318 at fusion power 4298.5 MW, of which 3868.0 MW is the charged-particle D+ ^3He p (14.6
Abstract by Priyanca Ford; G L Kulcinski, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2026) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22645693