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A magnetic mirror, also known as a magnetic trap or sometimes as a pyrotron, is a type of magnetic confinement fusion device used in fusion power to trap high temperature plasma using magnetic fields. The mirror was one of the earliest major approaches to fusion power, along with the stellarator and z-pinch machines.
The magnetic mirror is among the simplest magnetic fusion energy machines in terms of physical complexity. It consists largely of a cylinder with powerful magnets at each end, although in practice the cylindrical part (technically, a solenoid) is lined with less powerful magnets to better shape the field.
Magnetic mirror, which uses superconducting magnets to create a “magnetic bottle” that traps energetic plasma, was a popular fusion concept in the 1980s. In fact, ...
One of the two yin-yang mirrors arrives at LLNL. The plasma was confined in the small area between the two magnets. Drawing of the MFTF building. The Mirror Fusion Test Facility, or MFTF, was an experimental magnetic confinement fusion device built using the tandem magnetic mirror design. It was, by far, the largest, most powerful and most ...
The Tandem Mirror Experiment (TMX and TMX-U) was a magnetic mirror machine operated from 1979 to 1987 at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. [1] It was the first large-scale machine to test the "tandem mirror" concept in which two mirrors trapped a large volume of plasma between them in an effort to increase the efficiency of the reactor.
The mirror uses a solenoid to confine the plasma in the center of a cylinder, and then magnets at both ends force the magnetic lines closer together to create reflecting areas. The mirror ultimately proved to be "leaky"; the fuel refused to properly reflect from the ends as density and energy increased.
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