NUKLEONIKA 2012, 57(2):205-209
FUSION REACTION SCALING IN A MEGA-AMP DENSE PLASMA FOCUSEric 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. Close X |