First-Year Progress on Research and Development of a Mass Accelerator (MAID) As a Driver for Impact Fusion, May 6, 1981-May 5, 1982

摘要

The objective of this program is to construct a small scale mass accelerator consisting of 10 plasma discharge modules, and perform experiments and analysis with the system so that reliable scaling laws can be obtained for the device. The effort is directed to determining whether a large scale version of such a plasma driven mass accelerator could be used as a driver for inertial fusion, or other energy-related applications. (ERA citation 07:052347)