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Increasing the Efficiency of Ion Sources of Vacuum Neutron Tubes

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Optimization of the operating regime of power supply circuits of vacuum neutron tubes by inserting additional elements eliminates the instability of current flow, matches the acceleration and discharge pulses, and makes it possible to decrease significantly the current and neutron load on the ion source. In addition, the neutron yield does not decrease, as experiments confirm.

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  1. All-Russia Research Institute of Automatics (VNIIA), Moscow, Russia

    A. A. Bitulev, S. V. Churin, N. N. Shchitov & D. I. Yurkov

  2. National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Moscow, Russia

    S. G. Kladko, S. P. Maslennikov, D. S. Stepanov & E. Ya. Shkol’nikov

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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 118, No. 5, pp. 284–289, May, 2015.

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Bitulev, A.A., Churin, S.V., Shchitov, N.N. et al. Increasing the Efficiency of Ion Sources of Vacuum Neutron Tubes. At Energy 118, 354–359 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-015-0007-5

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