The Astron is a type of fusion power device pioneered by Nicholas Christofilos and built at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory during the 1960s...

(spacecraft), Soviet ultraviolet space telescope Astron (fusion reactor), a fusion power design from the 1960s Astron (wristwatch), the world's first quartz wristwatch...

Christofilos original idea of E-layers which he developed for the Astron fusion reactor. The PFRC program aims to experimentally verify the physics predictions...

pressure and thus tends to expand according to the ideal gas law. For a fusion reactor, the problem is keeping the plasma contained against this pressure;...

Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to continue his work on the Astron, a proposed fusion reactor planned during Project Sherwood. At LLNL, Christofilos worked...

that are simply too high to be useful in a reactor setting. Less-known designs like the levitron and astron are faring no better. The 12-beam "4 pi laser"...

threshold value, these fission–fusion hybrid reactors can continue producing power from the fission fuel as long as the fusion reactor continues to provide neutrons...

Nicholas C. Christofilos who developed the concept of E-layers for the Astron fusion reactor. The first studies were at the United States Naval Research Laboratory...

United States Fountain, Henry (September 29, 2020). "Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor Is 'Very Likely to Work,' Studies Suggest". New York Times. Retrieved...

round of budget cuts, MFTF was mothballed, and eventually scrapped. A fusion reactor concept called the Bumpy torus made use of a series of magnetic mirrors...

facility in which candidate materials for the use in an energy producing fusion reactor can be fully qualified. IFMIF will be an accelerator-driven neutron...

is a type of fusion power reactor design. The name refers to the configuration of currents used to confine the plasma fuel in the reactor, arranged to...

Weiss, Nicholas Christofilos, and Eugene Laurer in front of the Astron (fusion reactor)...

terms, the device was very similar to the toroidal magnetic confinement fusion reactor designs that emerged in the 1950s and 60s, with a strong physical resemblance...

3127921. S2CID 121637112. Christofilos, Nicholas (September 1958). Astron Thermonuclear Reactor (PDF). 2nd General Conference of the International Atomic Energy...

in the early 1950s, and ultimately to the ZETA reactor of 1958. The basic understanding of nuclear fusion was developed during the 1920s as physicists explored...

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theory of nuclear reactors. Currently, such work in KIAM is continuing in the field of plasma physics and controlled thermonuclear fusion, which began under...

commercial introduction of the quartz watch in 1969 in the form of the Seiko Astron 35SQ, and in 1970 in the form of the Omega Beta 21 was a revolutionary improvement...

Spektr-R Space based radiotelescope with the highest angular resolution (RadioAstron project). 2012 Russky Island Bridge The world's longest cable-stayed bridge...

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"Masses, Radii, and the Equation of State of Neutron Stars". Annu. Rev. Astron. Astrophys. 54 (1): 401–440. arXiv:1603.02698. Bibcode:2016ARA&A..54..401O...

Berlin: hendrik Bäßler-Verlag (Monuments and Sites XVIII) 2009. pp 155–157 Astron. Nachr. /AN 328 (2007), No. 7 – Short Contributions AG2007 Würzburg 1 A...