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Defense Intelligence Reference Document Advanced Nuclear Propulsion For Manned Deep Space Missions
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This Defense Intelligence Reference Document from the Defense Intelligence Agency, dated 11 March 2010, was produced under the Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It argues that spaceships powered by deuterium thermonuclear reactions could be built with current science and technology. The paper covers ignition by GeV proton beams, magnetic insulation, the Super Marx generator and conjectured chemical superexplosives, and it concludes that such craft could make manned exploration of the entire solar system possible.
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Magnetic Entrapment of the Charged Fusion Products and the Stopping of the
Proton Beam in…
- p. 4 …Ignition With 107-Ampere GeV Proton Beam ......................................... 11
Figure 2. Pure Deuterium Fusion Explosion Ignited With…
- p. 5 …microexplosions by intense relativistic electron and ion beams, driven by a
high-voltage Marx generator. This…
- p. 12 …Magnetic Entrapment of the Charged Fusion Products and
the Stopping of the Proton Beam in Dense…
- p. 13 …If focused onto one end of a slender, cylindrical
deuterium rod, the beam not only can…
- p. 15 …But this is different for an intense beam of protons, where
the stopping length is determined…
- p. 16 …If the GeV -10 7-ampere proton beam passes through background hydrogen plasma with
a particle…
- p. 17 …Ignition With 107-Ampere GeV Proton Beam (Reference 16)
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- p. 19 …If the spacecraft is charged to a positive GeV potential, a gigajoule intense relativistic
ion beam…
- p. 20 …Pure Deuterium Fusion Explosion Ignited With an Intense Ion Beam. D deuterium rod, h
hohlraum, I…
- p. 21 …Delivery of a Gev Proton Beam Onto the Deuterium Fusion
Explosive
The spacecraft is inductively charged…
- p. 22 …For a proton energy pulse of 1 gigajoule, the beam
power is 3x l0 16 erg…
- p. 26 …the generation of gigavolt 10 7-ampere proton beams. Since the realization of
pure deuterium beams…
- p. 28 …Injection of GeV- 10 MA Proton Beam.
Drawn From Super Marx generator made up of
magnetically…
- p. 30 …beam down to a small diameter.
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- p. 33 …with an intense relativistic electron or ion beam.
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- p. 34 …Accordingly, a 2-MJ beam would produce
100 Mb. Instead of an intense relativistic electron beam…
- p. 37 …Winterberg, "Can a Laser Beam ignite a Hydrogen Bomb?", United States Atomic
Energy Commission, classified January…
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Advanced Nuclear Propulsion for Manned Deep Space
Missions
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Advanced Aerospace
uestions pertaining to
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