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Title: Plasma Jet Driven Magneto-Inertial Fusion (PJMIF)

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [3];  [1];  [3];  [2];  [4];  [2];  [5];  [6];  [7];  [3];  [3];  [3];  [1];  [1]
  1. HyperJet Fusion Corporation, Chantilly, VA (United States)
  2. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  3. HyperJet Fusion Corporation, Chantilly, VA (United States); HyperV Technologies Corp., Chantilly, VA (United States)
  4. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States)
  5. Univ. of Alabama, Huntsville, AL (United States)
  6. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
  7. Tech-X Corporation, Denver, CO (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (SC-21); USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
OSTI Identifier:
1506631
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1544694
Report Number(s):
BNL-211511-2019-JAAM; LA-UR-19-21026
Journal ID: ISSN 1536-1055
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0012704; AR0000566; 89233218CNA000001
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Fusion Science and Technology
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 75; Journal Issue: 7; Journal ID: ISSN 1536-1055
Publisher:
American Nuclear Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; Plasma jet; Magneto-inertial fusion; Pulse coaxial plasma guns; Slab-mode; Fusion; Reactor concept; Innovative Fusion Approaches; PLX; Plasma liner; ARPA-E ALPHA; MIF, MTF, PJMIF, Plasma Liner

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Thio, Y. C. Francis, Hsu, Scott C., Witherspoon, F. Douglas, Cruz, Edward, Case, Andrew, Langendorf, Samuel, Yates, Kevin, Dunn, John, Cassibry, Jason, Samulyak, Roman, Stoltz, Peter, Brockington, Samuel J., Williams, Ajoke, Luna, Marco, Becker, Robert, and Cook, Adam. Plasma Jet Driven Magneto-Inertial Fusion (PJMIF). United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1080/15361055.2019.1598736.
Thio, Y. C. Francis, Hsu, Scott C., Witherspoon, F. Douglas, Cruz, Edward, Case, Andrew, Langendorf, Samuel, Yates, Kevin, Dunn, John, Cassibry, Jason, Samulyak, Roman, Stoltz, Peter, Brockington, Samuel J., Williams, Ajoke, Luna, Marco, Becker, Robert, & Cook, Adam. Plasma Jet Driven Magneto-Inertial Fusion (PJMIF). United States. https://doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2019.1598736
Thio, Y. C. Francis, Hsu, Scott C., Witherspoon, F. Douglas, Cruz, Edward, Case, Andrew, Langendorf, Samuel, Yates, Kevin, Dunn, John, Cassibry, Jason, Samulyak, Roman, Stoltz, Peter, Brockington, Samuel J., Williams, Ajoke, Luna, Marco, Becker, Robert, and Cook, Adam. Tue . "Plasma Jet Driven Magneto-Inertial Fusion (PJMIF)". United States. https://doi.org/10.1080/15361055.2019.1598736. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1506631.
@article{osti_1506631,
title = {Plasma Jet Driven Magneto-Inertial Fusion (PJMIF)},
author = {Thio, Y. C. Francis and Hsu, Scott C. and Witherspoon, F. Douglas and Cruz, Edward and Case, Andrew and Langendorf, Samuel and Yates, Kevin and Dunn, John and Cassibry, Jason and Samulyak, Roman and Stoltz, Peter and Brockington, Samuel J. and Williams, Ajoke and Luna, Marco and Becker, Robert and Cook, Adam},
abstractNote = {},
doi = {10.1080/15361055.2019.1598736},
journal = {Fusion Science and Technology},
number = 7,
volume = 75,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue May 07 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Tue May 07 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}

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