Lifetime and shelf life of sealed tritium-filled plasma focus chambers with gas generator

B.D. Lemeshko; А.К. Dulatov; Yu V. Mikhailov; I.A. Prokuratov; A.N. Selifanov; T.S. Fatiev; V.G. Andreev

doi:10.1016/j.mre.2017.08.001

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