NUKLEONIKA 2012, 57(2):205-209

 


FUSION REACTION SCALING IN A MEGA-AMP DENSE PLASMA FOCUS



Eric J. Lerner, S. Krupakar Murali, Aaron M. Blake, Derek M. Shannon,
Frederik J. van Roessel


Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, Inc., 128 Lincoln Blvd., Middlesex, NJ, 08846 USA


The dense plasma focus (DPF) is one of the most efficient sources of fusion reactions for a given energy input. For smaller DPFs, fusion output scales as I4 or faster, where I is peak current. However, energy output in high-current machines saturates at 1012 reactions with deuterium as fill gas. To attempt to overcome this saturation, experiments at the focus fusion-1 (FF-1) facility have tested the use of smaller-radius electrodes (2.8 cm radius anode) and higher fill-gas densities > 30 T.


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