Small tritium filling and monitoring apparatus for particle beam inertial confinement fusion targets.
A small gas filling apparatus has been developed to fill a particle beam ICF target with D-T gas mixture seconds before the target is irradiated. Included in the filling apparatus is a novel miniature pressure monitor which determines quantitatively the fill pressure by counting the rate of Beta particles emitted by the decaying tritium atoms.
Chang
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Sandia Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185, USA.
Leeper
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Martinez
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McMurtry
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