title: Small tritium filling and monitoring apparatus for particle beam inertial confinement fusion targets.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Sandia Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Leeper
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Martinez
authors.forename: W M
authors.initials: WM
authors.lastname: McMurtry