Magneto-inertia confinement approach (MICA) to fusion in dynamic Z-pinch formed from a frozen deuterium-tritium tube

This paper reconsiders the magneto-inertia confinement approach to fusion in dynamic z-pinch with a new method of generating a hot plasma using a frozen deuterium-tritium (D-T) tube as an initial condition. If modern pulsed power technology can induce the high current of the order of 10 MA along the tube, the dense z-pinch plasma formed from the electro-magnetical implosion of thin tubular D-T ice with a radius of about 1 mm can satisfy the Lawson criterion for its 1 cm length. (author)