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On the Road to Fusion Energy, an Accelerator to Study Warm Dense Matter
Media contact: Paul Preuss Scientific contact: Joe Kwan Warm dense matter exists in the cores of gas giant planets and the preliminary stages of nuclear fusion, among other inaccessible places. With an...
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Contact: Paul Preuss The Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment II (NDCX-II) now under construction at Berkeley Lab will deliver a high-current pulse of lithium ions to a foil target almost...
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A Research Center for Kazakhstan
The heart of Central Asia is dominated by the Republic of Kazakhstan, a nation with ambitious plans for the future. Kazakhstan’s robust growth for the past decade has been based on exporting raw...
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Part I: The Energy that Drives the Stars Comes Closer to Earth
The sun releases energy when, under gravitational pressure, light elements combine to form heavier elements. Scientists seek to control fusion on Earth by different methods. In one form of inertial...
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Part II: The Energy that Drives the Stars – Different Technologies for Unique...
The NDCX-II accelerator is specifically designed to study warm dense matter. By using an induction accelerator and a neutralized drift compression system, the ion pulse can be shaped to deliver most of...
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A New Accelerator to Study Steps on the Path to Fusion
The just-completed NDCX-II, the second generation Neutralized Drift Compression Experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), is an unusual...
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