Traveling wave pyrotron

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A TRAVELING WAVE PLASMA HEATING DEVICE COMPRISING AN AXIALLY ELONGATED VACUUM TANK ESTABLISHING AN EVACUATED SPACE, MAGNETIC FIELD GENERATING MEANS CARRIED BY SAID VACUUM TANK TO GENERATE AN AXIALLY SYMMETRIC TRAVELING WAVE MAGNETIC FIELD PROGRESSING AXIALLY THROUGH SAID SPACE WITH THE ALTERNATE MIXIMA AND MINIMA OF THE FIELD DEFINING A CONTINUOUS SERIES OF MOVING AXIALLY SUMMETRIC MAGNETIC CONTINMENT ZONES FOR CONTAINING CHARGE PARTICLES, SAID MAGNETIC FIELD PROGRESSIVELY INCREASING IN IN TENSITY ALONG THE AXIS OF SAID SPACE IN THE DIRECTION OF WAVE MOTION WITHIN AN INJECTION REGION, SAID FIELD GRADUALLY INCREASING IN INTENSITY IN THE DIRECTION OF WAVE MOTION IN A REACTION REGION WITHIN SAID SPACE AXIALLY ADJOINING SAID INJECTION REGION, SAID FIELD PROGRESSIVELY DECREASING IN INTENSITY IN AN EXPANSION REGION AXIALLY ADJOINING SAID REACTION REGION WITHIN SAID SPACE IN THE DIRECTION OF WAVE MOTION, AND PLASMA GENERATING MEANS DISPOSED WITHIN SAID INJECTION REGION TO INJECT PLASMA INTO SAID CONTAININMENT ZONES CONTINUOUSLY MOVING THERETHROUGH WHEREBY THE PLASMA IS TRAPPED AND COMPRESSED WITHIN EACH CONTAINMENT ZONE DURING PASSAGE THROUGH THE INJECTION REGION AND THEN UNDERGOES NUCLEAR REACTIONS WITH AN ATTENDANT PRODUCTION OF ENERGETIC REACTION PRODUCTS DURING PASSAGE THROUGH THE REACTION REGION WITH THE REACTION PRODUCTS THEREAFTER EXPANDING AGAINST THE FIELD AND DELIVERING ENERGY THERETO DURING PASSAGE OF THE CONTAINMENT ZONES THROUGH THE EXPANSION REGION WHICH ENERGY IS THERECEFORTH TRANSFERRED BY SAID FIELD TO FIELD GENERATING COMPONENTS OF SAID FIELD GENERACTING MEANS ASSOCIATED WITH SAID EXPANSION REGION.