NEUTRON YIELDS FROM HIGH-POWER /theta/-PINCH DEVICE
Technical Report
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OSTI ID:4775815
A fast compression system which utilizes a maximum of 384,000 joules of energy is discharged in a single-turn, shaped coil around either a 4-in.- or a 8- in.-dia discharge tube. A magnetic bias field is initially produced in the coil antiparallel to the field on the first half cycle of the main discharge. Neutron production in deuterium plasmas was measured as a function of bank voltage, bias field, and deuterium pressure. The appearance of the compressed plasma was photographed in the axial direction of the coil using a fast image converter camera which takes either streak or three frame pictures. (auth)
- Research Organization:
- General Electric Co. Research Lab., Schenectady, N.Y.
- NSA Number:
- NSA-17-000948
- OSTI ID:
- 4775815
- Report Number(s):
- 62-RL-2936E
- Country of Publication:
- Country unknown/Code not available
- Language:
- English
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ELECTRON TUBES
ENERGY
GASES
IMAGES
MAGNETIC FIELDS
MEASURED VALUES
NEUTRON FLUX
NEUTRON SOURCES
NEUTRONS
PHOTOGRAPHY
PHYSICS
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PRESSURE
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THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES
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COILS
CONFIGURATION
DENSITY
DEUTERIUM
EFFICIENCY
ELECTRIC DISCHARGES
ELECTRIC POTENTIAL
ELECTRON TUBES
ENERGY
GASES
IMAGES
MAGNETIC FIELDS
MEASURED VALUES
NEUTRON FLUX
NEUTRON SOURCES
NEUTRONS
PHOTOGRAPHY
PHYSICS
PINCH
PLASMA
POWER PLANTS
PRESSURE
PRODUCTION
PULSES
SCHLIEREN
THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES
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