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Larry R. Grisham, Douglass E. Post, John M. Dawson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 3 | November 1983 | Pages 452-455
Technical Papers | Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A22794
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We investigate the possibility of seeding a fusion plasma with nuclei that can undergo nuclear reactions with energetic alpha particles to produce product nuclei that are radioactive. If a fraction of these product nuclei can be collected and measured, one can obtain information about the presence of fast alpha particles. It appears that a feasible diagnostic could be based on the 10B(α,n)13N reaction.
