Magnetized Target Fusion using a Field Reversed Configuration at Los Alamos

We present an overview of the Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) project at Los Alamos National Laboratory. MTF could be a low cost path to fusion, in a regime that is intermediate between magnetic and inertial fusion energy. It requires compression of a magnetized target plasma and consequent heating to fusion relevant conditions inside a converging flux conserver. We hope to demonstrate the physics basis for MTF by translating a Field Reversed Configuration (FRC) target plasma into a compression region. FRX-L is a FRC that has shown substantial recent progress towards high pressure and density ($>20-30$ atmospheres, $5 \times 10^{22} m^{-3}$). Part of our FRC physics investigations of the collisional FRX-L include VUV spectroscopy diagnostics to measure plasma flow. Substantial progress towards implementation of the integrated liner compressed plasma experiment at AFRL include test implosions of a deformable liner, and a second generation engineering design.