CX-031953: Los Alamos National Laboratory - Target Formation and Integrated Experiments for Plasma-Jet Driven Magneto-Inertial Fusion

This Fourth Amended Determination follows the approval of additional funds and extended period of performance to support the project team's continued small-scale, research and development of plasma-jet driven magneto-inertial fusion (PJMIF), which uses a spherical array of plasma guns to produce an imploding supersonic plasma shell, or “liner,” which inertially compresses and heats a pre-injected magnetized plasma “target” to access the conditions for thermonuclear fusion under the Breakthroughs Enabling THermonuclear-fusion Energy (BETHE) Program.