# Magneto-Inertial Fusion and Powerful Plasma Installations (A Review)
## 4 Plasma Jet Driven Magneto-Inertial Fusion  
There are many devices in the world for implementing magneto-inertial fusion with plasma guns and high-speed plasma jets (PJMIF). Let us focus on the main ones. In paper [53], desirable magnetized plasma with \(\beta>1\) was defined possibly with strongly entangled open lines of force, which may serve as a suitable target for compression to fusion conditions using a spherical-plasma liner formed by the merging of hypervelocity plasma jets to demonstrate the heating of the target upon compression at a kinetic energy of the plasma liner of \(\lesssim\)100 kJ (several hundred times below the required energy for a PJMIF reactor). A brief report [54] contains information on the development of an experiment to form a plasma liner (PLX--Plasma Liner eXperiment). Simulation modeling of a section of a spherically exploding plasma liner formed by the fusion of six hypersonic plasma jets was performed under conditions corresponding to the experiment with the PLX plasma liner [55]. In study [56], a new axial compression experiment with a reversed field configuration (FRC--field reversed configuration) with a high-speed translational \(\theta\)-pinch plasma in a Keda mirror was conducted. \begin{table}
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**Parameter** & **MagLIF** \\ \hline Current & \(\leq\)20 MA \\ \hline Laser pulse energy & \(\leq\)4 MJ \\ \hline Laser wavelength & 527 nm \\ \hline Pulse duration & up to 100 ns \\ \hline Magnetic field & \(\leq\)20 T \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 4: MagLIF Parameters on \(Z\) machine (Pulsed power facility). \begin{table}
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**Parameter** & **OMEGA** & **OMEGA EP** \\ \hline Laser pulse energy & \(\leq\)30 kJ & \(\leq\)5 kJ \\ \hline Laser pulse power & \(\geq\)27 TW & – \\ \hline Laser wavelength & 351 nm & 1.053 mcm \\ \hline Laser pulse duration & up to 4 ns & up to 100 ps \\ \hline Laser pulse spot size & \(\leq\)40 mcm & \(\leq\)20 mcm \\ \hline Magnetic field induction & - & \(\leq\)50 T \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 3: Parameters of OMEGA and OMEGA EP. \begin{table}
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**Parameter** & **Description** \\ \hline Laser pulse energy & \(\geq\)1.8 MJ \\ \hline Laser pulse power & \(\geq\)500 TW \\ \hline Laser wavelength & 0.35 mcm \\ \hline Laser pulse duration & up to 20 ns \\ \hline Laser pulse spot size & \(\leq\)600 mcm \\ \hline Magnetic field induction & \(\leq\)30 T \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 2: Parameters of NIF with magnetic field. MagLIF experiments at the Z facility [57] demonstrated the basic principles of magnetic inertial synthesis (MIF) for a wall-bounded plasma. In the article [58], the p- 11B reaction is proposed as a much cleaner alternative for, and ideally, without, a toroidal field. In this work, the dynamics of compression and nuclear burning of p- 11B fuel liners were analyzed and simulated under initial physical conditions. Furthermore, the fusion amplification coefficient, liner parameters, and parameters of the magnetized p- 11B fuel target were compared to those of D-T nuclear fuel. PJMIF has become a leading concept in MIF, using a coaxial plasma accelerator as an autonomous driver. Such experiment is called PLX [59], for more current experiments and investigations, see Refs. [60; 61; 62; 63; 64; 65; 66]. Among the devices located in Russia, the following can be listed: Anagara 5-1 (TRINITI) [67; 68], the UVL laser (Sarov), and GIT-12 pulse generator (Tomsk). All of these installations use the concept of plasma jets. Another machine located in RFNC-VNIIEF is the megajoule-level laser system UVL-2M. Its main purpose is to conduct fundamental research in the field of high-density physics and to apply laser-driven inertial confinement in energy production.