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Christmas Night
Twas the night before Christmas when all through the houseNo electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged in by the chimney with careWith the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
Larry R. Grisham, Douglass E. Post, John M. Dawson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 4 | Number 3 | November 1983 | Pages 452-455
Technical Papers | Plasma Engineering | doi.org/10.13182/FST83-A22794
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
We investigate the possibility of seeding a fusion plasma with nuclei that can undergo nuclear reactions with energetic alpha particles to produce product nuclei that are radioactive. If a fraction of these product nuclei can be collected and measured, one can obtain information about the presence of fast alpha particles. It appears that a feasible diagnostic could be based on the 10B(α,n)13N reaction.
