Background
As part of the MFMP powder test initiative, we are looking for a test cell with the following requirements:
- Practical and cost effective to make, in case it works and we want many copies
- Capable of containing 5 grams of powder
- (roughly 4+ cc volume at 1.2 g/cc density)
- Capable of handling very high vacuums for the purpose of degassing the powder.
- Capable of 20+bar of Hydrogen (several hundred psi)
- Temperatures up to 500C
- Provide for external heating of the cell and powder
- Internal and external temperature measurements
- Provisions for spark triggering
- Provisions for magnetic pulse triggering, etc
- Include a plan for precision calorimetry (+/- just a few milliwatts)
- Plan for detecting Gamma rays or Tritium as an indication of nuclear activity
The whole background on this new cell: