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Current state, problems, and prospects of thermonuclear facilities based on the magneto-inertial confinement of hot plasma

  • Proceedings of the LXIII International Conference “Nuclei 2013: Fundamental Problems of Nuclear Physics and Atomic Power Engineering” (LXIII International Conference on Nuclear Spectroscopy and the Structure of Atomic Nuclei)
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Magneto-inertial fusion (MIF) is an original technique of inertial thermonuclear fusion, where spherical and cylindrical gas or plasma configurations are compressed under the action of an external magnetic field. We present a brief review of recent data on laser- and plasma jet-driven MIF systems and possible ways they can be applied. This work also presents problems of and prospects for the application of such approaches.

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Original Russian Text © S.V. Ryzhkov, 2014, published in Izvestiya Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Seriya Fizicheskaya, 2014, Vol. 78, No. 5, pp. 647–653.

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Ryzhkov, S.V. Current state, problems, and prospects of thermonuclear facilities based on the magneto-inertial confinement of hot plasma. Bull. Russ. Acad. Sci. Phys. 78, 456–461 (2014). https://doi.org/10.3103/S1062873814050281

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