2011 conference paper
A comparative study of different low-Z liner materials in an ablation-dominated electrothermal mass accelerator for fusion fueling
2011 IEEE/NPSS 24th Symposium on Fusion Engineering (SOFE).
A low-z ablation-dominated capillary with an ablation-free extension barrel is a concept that provides a plasma flow sufficient to propel fuel pellets into the tokamak fusion plasma chamber. The acceleration barrel is made from a non-ablating material to eliminate mixing the propelling plasma with any impurities evolving from the barrel ablation.