Perform experiments on LINUS-O and LTX imploding liquid liner fusion systems. Final report 8 Sep 80-30 Sep 81

Technical Report · Fri Aug 27 04:00:00 EDT 1982

OSTI ID:6361401

Scannell, E P

The Plasma Physics Division of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has been conducting investigations of imploding liquid liner fusion systems for several years (Reference 1). This effort attained a significant milestone in 1978 with the construction of two machines: HELIUS and LINUS-O. LINUS-O is a 60 MJ rotor system where a cylindrical liquid sodium - potassium (NaK) metal liner is radially compressed from a 30 cm to 1 cm diameter by gas pressure from multiple high explosive charges. These charges act on an annular piston in contact with the liquid NaK liner material. HELIUS is a half-scale vertical axis version of LINUS-O using high pressure helium to drive the annular piston. HELIUS is designed to be a test bed for new concepts and to permit testing of new modifications to LINUS-O. The principal virtue of HELIUS is its capability for ten to twenty shots per day as compared to two or three shots per day for LINUS-O. In addition, HELIUS is designed to provide higher drive pressures than were previously obtainable with water models for liner hydrodynamic studies and a magnetic flux compression capability up to approx. 100 kG.

• Research Organization: JAYCOR, Alexandria, VA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 6361401
• Report Number(s): AD-A-120052/6
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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