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This Defense Intelligence Agency reference document, dated 10 March 2010, covers inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) fusion. It was produced in FY 2009 under the DIA's Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications (AAWSA) program. The report focuses on work at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and reviews IEC basics, experiments, theory and applications such as neutron sources, explosives detection and space propulsion. It concludes by proposing a breakeven experiment for p-11B fusion that uses a hydrogen plasma simulation.
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UNCLASSIFIED/ /FOR QFFlliltllL t!I.JI!! Gilt I temperatures are suppressed. These issues will be discussed further in Section IV on theory and Section VI on a proposed breakeven experiment. REFERENCES 1.1 W. Elmore, J. Tuck, and K. Watson, "On the Inertial-Electrostatic Confinement of a Plasma", Phys. Fluids, vol. 2, No. 3, ( 1959) pp. 239-246. 1.2 R.L. Hirsch, "Inertial-electrostatic confinement of ionized fusion gases," J. of Appl. Phys., vol. 38, (1967) pp. 4522-4534. 1.3 W. M. Black and E. H. Klevans, "Theory of Potential-Well Formation in an Electrostatic Confinement Device", J. of Appl. Phys., Vol. 45, No. 6 (1974) pp. 2502- 2511. 1.4 T. A. Thorson, R. D. Durst, R. J. Fonck, and L. P. Wainwright, "Convergence Electrostatic Potential, and Density Measurements in a Spherical Convergent Ion Focus", Phys. Plasmas, vol. 4, no. 1, (1997) pp. 4-5. 1.5 G.H. Miley, et al., "Inertial-electrostatic confinement neutron proton source," Third International Conference on Dense 2-pinches, AIP Conference Proceedings 299, (1993) pp. 675-689. 1.6 R.W. Bussard, "Some Physics Considerations of Magnetic Inertial-Electrostatic Confinement: A New Concept for Spherical Converging-Flow Fusion", Fusion Technology, vol. 19, no. 2, (1991) pp. 273-293. 1.7 N. A. Krall, "The Polywell™: A Spherically Convergent Ion Focus Concept", Fusion Technology, vol. 22, no!, (1992) pp. 42-49. 1.8 S. K. Wong and N. A. Krall, "A Nonlocal Theory of Counterstreaming Ion Instability", Phys. Fluids B, vol. 5, no.6, (1993) pp. 1706-1714. 1.9 D. C. Barnes, M. M. Schauer, K. R. Umstadter, L. Chacon, and G. H. Miley, "Electron equilibrium and confinement in a modified Penning trap and its application to Penning fusion", Phys. Plasmas, vol. 7, no. 5, May (2000). 1.10 R. A. Nebel, D. C. Barnes, Fusion Technology 38, 28 (1998). 1.11 D. C. Barnes, R. A. Nebel, "Stable, thermal equilibrium, large-amplitude, spherical plasma oscillations in electrostatic confinement devices", Physics of Plasmas 5, 2498 (1998). 1.12 J. Park, R. A. Nebel, S. Stange, S. K. Murali, "Periodically oscillating plasma sphere", Physics of Plasmas 12, (2005) 056315. 13 UNCLASSIFIED//Flilll. lilFFllil,'\I! l!l!il!! e,u:,·
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