David Donovan

TL;DR: In this paper, the steady-state linear plasma device MPEX is designed to deliver those plasma conditions with a novel Radio Frequency plasma source able to produce high density plasmas and heat electron and ions separately with electron Bernstein wave (EBW) heating and ion cyclotron resonance heating with a total installed power of 800 kW.

TL;DR: The material plasma exposure experiment (MPEX) is a newly proposed steady state linear plasma device designed to deliver the necessary plasma heat flux to a target for testing, including the capability to expose a priori neutron-damaged material samples to those plasmas as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Proto-MPEX is a linear plasma device being used to study a novel RF source concept for the planned Material Plasma Exposure eXperiment (MPEX), which will address plasma-materials interaction (PMI) for nuclear fusion reactors as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The UW IEC D-D fusion device has achieved 115 kV pulses in excess of 2 ampere, with pulsed neutron rates of 1.8x10 9 n/s during a 0.5 ms pulse at 10 Hz.