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Fusion research tackles fuel and instrumentation challenges
Three research groups are reporting fusion-related developments, including ongoing work toward spin-polarized fusion, a new plasma diagnostic tool heading to the National Ignition Facility, and a materials science project that could impact the design of inertial confinement fusion fuel targets.
Lefteri Tsoukalas, Franklin Clikeman, Martin Bertodano, Tatjana Jevremovic, Joshua Walter, Anton Bougaev, Edward Merritt
Nuclear Technology | Volume 155 | Number 2 | August 2006 | Pages 248-251
Technical Note | Radiation Measurements and Instrumentation | doi.org/10.13182/NT06-A3759
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An attempt to reproduce the tritium measurements in an acoustic cavitation experiment with deuteratad acetone has shown no evidence of tritium production attributed to D-D fusion. The average number of disintegrations per minute observed is within 1 of zero.
