Proposed Generation and Compression of a Target Plasma for MTF
Abstract
Magnetized target fusion (MTF), in which a magnetothermally insulated plasma is hydrodynamically compressed to fusion conditions, represents an approach to controlled fusion which avoids difficulties of both traditional inertial confinement and magnetic confinement approaches. It appears possible to compress a rnagnetothermally insulated plasma to fusion ignition conditions using existing, relatively inexpensive drivers, such as pulsed power devices (including explosive pulsed power). Hence, MTF may represent a means to demonstrate and study ignited plasmas with a very small capital investment. An ongoing LANL explosive pulsed power collaboration with the Russian VNIIEF Laboratory at Arzarnas 16 is partly motivated by this application.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1995
- Accession Number
- ADA639586
Entities
People
- Anthony G. Sgro
- David W. Scudder
- Fred J. Wysocki
- Irvin R. Lindemuth
- Jack S. Shlachter
- Joyce A. Guzik
- Juan C. Fernandez
- Robert E. Chrein
- Rodney S. Thurston
- Ronald C. Kirkpatrick
Organizations
- Los Alamos National Laboratory