TWDEC — Travelling-Wave Direct Energy Converter
TWDEC — Travelling-Wave Direct Energy Converter — Fast-ion → RF direct conversion channel. Travelling-wave direct energy converter recovering the 14.7 MeV proton branch of D-³He (and the 8.7 MeV alpha branch of p-¹¹B) as RF power at 40–70% channel efficiency without a thermal cycle.