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A movable electrophysical capacitor installation with a 250-kJ maximum bank energy, which generates intense neutron pulses, is described. A current pulse generator with a capacitive energy storage forms the basis of the installation. When the initial voltage at the capacitor bank is up to 35 kV, the installation ensures a flow of current pulses with amplitudes of up to 2 MA in a gas-discharge plasma-focus chamber, which is filled with an equal-component deuterium-tritium (DT) mixture. Under these conditions, the chamber is capable of repeatedly generating single fast-neutron pulses with an energy of 14.1 MeV, a duration of ∼70 ns, and an integral yield over 1013 neutrons/pulse.
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Original Russian Text © V.V. Maslov, V.G. Rumyantsev, V.F. Basmanov, D.V. Budnikov, A.V. Garin, I.Yu. Drozdov, D.A. Ershov, D.S. Korkin, N.G. Makeev, D.A. Molodtsev, N.I. Moskvin, S.T. Nazarenko, O.N. Petrushin, A.P. Falin, V.A. Yukhnevich, 2014, published in Pribory i Tekhnika Eksperimenta, 2014, No. 2, pp. 43–47.
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Maslov, V.V., Rumyantsev, V.G., Basmanov, V.F. et al. A KPU-200 movable capacitor installation. Instrum Exp Tech 57, 131–134 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0020441214010254
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