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. 4 …Fusion Reaction Cross Sections vs. Temperature ..................................... 4 Figure 2. Magnetic Mirror Confinement .................................................................. 6 Figure 3. a…
p. 8 …The fusion reaction cross sections (cr), the probability of interaction for these reactions in barns= 10…
p. 9 …Fusion Reaction Cross Sections vs. Temperature Table 2: Fusion Peak Interaction Temperatures and Fusion Energy to…
p. 13 …collision cross section is several orders of magnitude smaller than the Coulomb-collision cross section. 4…
p. 27 …START(ca •-) Cross section of present EU D-s.i,ape tokaniaks cotnpared to t.i…
p. 32 …plasma dynamics, collision-dominated transport, and fusion cross-section predictions need to be applied. Figure 19…

01 November 2010
ICOD: 20 July 2010
DIA-08-1011-004
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