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Defense Intelligence Reference Document Aneutronic Fusion Propulsion (2)

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This Defense Intelligence Agency reference document, dated 1 November 2010, is one of a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2010 under the Advanced Aerospace Weapons System Applications (AAWSA) Program. It covers fusion plasma physics, confinement methods, and propulsion concepts that use aneutronic fuels such as hydrogen and boron-11. It concludes that such thrusters may soon replace satellite ion thrusters. It also finds that they will not be practical beyond the solar system without breakthrough propulsion physics.

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  • p. 6 …Magnetic confinement devices utilized the IEC method with imploding layers of lithium or applying intense beams…
  • p. 12 …using high-energy lasers or using particle beams ( electrons or ions). The vast majority of ICF…
  • p. 14 …can be substituted for lasers or particle beams to compress the target. A lower implosion velocity…
  • p. 16 …Optimization of this conceptual design using the FRC plasma confinement using colliding beams has led to…
  • p. 17 …Colliding Beam Fusion Reactor Cheung et al. 2004 Dense Plasma Focus Reactors The Dense Plasma Focus…
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  • p. 19 …Such designs then accelerate and focus ions into a beam, using an electrostatic potential, with a…
  • p. 22 …The addition of a 150-kWe ion beam for heating a (p, 11 B) plasma close…
  • p. 26 …The HEDLPP program covers the following areas: • Radiative hydrodynamics. • Laser-plasma and beam-plasma interaction. • Fusion…
  • p. 28 …Both Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (which uses DPF, dense plasma focus, confinement) and TriApha (which uses beam…
  • p. 29 …Current: $11M (p,"B) Needed:$1OOM TriAlpha Beam-Heated Field (p,"B) Current : $SOM Reversed Conf…
  • p. 31 …Lightweight For particle beam !EC, CBFR Most experiments are particle injection, energy currently ground oriented - accelerators…
  • p. 33 …production needs 10 he ren-cled ,ia beam direct conYersinn "ith electron escape 01· ndinaed back…
  • p. 35 …This could be extended to the very high-power domain of beam-assisted FRC for manned…
  • p. 36 …Rahman, and J.O'Toole, "Colliding Beam Fusion Reactor Space Propulsion System," Space Technology and Applications…
01 November 2010
ICOD: 20 July 2010
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