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High-power pulse generators have been used to produce dense plasmas by the explosion of thin polymer fibers. Sufficiently high in energies have been achieved to produce large neutron yields. Neutron production is attributed mainly to the reaction d (d, n) ^3He and neutrons are observed when either fibers containing the natural abundance of deuterium or nearly fully deuterated fibers are used. Results are given which show the variation of the neutron yield with initial fiber diameter and with deuterium content.
Stephanakis et al. (1972) studied this question.