Defense Intelligence Reference Document Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion

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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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p. 4 …54 Magnetically-Channeled Spherical IEC Array (MCSA) Concept ......................... 56 Recirculation of Radial Belt Cone Losses ...................................................... 57…
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p. 19 …Other faint light channels indicate beams for scattering of the central core region. As seen, a…
p. 30 …In addition to maneuverable thrusting, the jet channel extraction technique enables directing and focusing the plasma…
p. 32 …The micro-channel formation in the STAR mode acts to maintain and store the accelerated ions…
p. 33 …A cylindrical "channel" grid with the same electrostatic potential as the central spherical grid creates a…
p. 38 …Using Doppler spectroscopy of the Hydrogen Ha line they have shown that the micro-channels in…
p. 39 …electric propulsion thruster where a unidirectional micro-channel emerges from a conical cathode (Reference 3.14…
p. 63 …MAGNETICALLY-CHANNELED SPHERICAL IEC ARRAY {MCSA} CONCEPT The Magnetically-Channeled Spherical IEC Array (MCSA) concept for…
p. 64 …retrapping, that provide the basis for magnet channel coupling. Recirculation of Radial Belt Cone Losses The…
p. 67 …Momota, "Magnetically-Channeled SIEC Array (MCSA) Fusion Device for Interplanetary Missions", Space Technology and Applications International…

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temperatures are suppressed. These issues will be discussed further in Section IV on
theory and Section VI on a proposed breakeven experiment.
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sphere", Physics of Plasmas 12, (2005) 056315.
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