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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. 8 …the center of a metal vacuum vessel. The fusion "fuel", e.g. deuterium gas, is first…
  • p. 9 …Then a confinement time T of~ 1 sec is required. For Inertia Confinement Fusion (ICF) or…
  • p. 14 …The grid must approach a spherical shape within a few percent before other factors such as…
  • p. 15 …The present author (G. Miley), however, went back to the internal discharge ion source technique to…
  • p. 18 …This formalism is then included as a boundary condition in a gridless particle code. Results indicate…
  • p. 20 …Chacon, and G. H. Miley, "Electron equilibrium and confinement in a modified Penning trap and its…
  • p. 27 …2.3 G. H. Miley, Y. Gu, J. M. DeMorea, R. A. Stubbers, T. A. Hochberg…
  • p. 28 …Ashley, G.L. Kulcinski "Progress in the Development of a 3 He Ion Source for IEC…
  • p. 36 UNCLASSIFIED/ ;raA 8FFlil.l1k WE&i &Ilk¥ low fuel leakage and extreme maneuverability make it a…
  • p. 39 …Comparison of Analytical and Numerical Estimates of Q-values in a beam-Dominated Solution -- for a…
  • p. 40 …Kim, and G. H. Miley, "Two-Dimensional Modeling of a Radically-Convergent Cylindrical Inertial Electrostatic Confinement…
  • p. 41 …Chacon, doing his thesis with G. Miley, decided to use a Fokker Plank model for analysis…
  • p. 47 …plasma) and also a peak in front of the grid (real cathode). ----,----------- "-g -I ,l u…
  • p. 48 …to establish a complete picture of energy gain possible in a power type IEC. MOMOTA ET…
  • p. 53 …Chacon, G. H. Miley, D. C. Barnes, and D. A. Knoll, "Energy gain calculations in Penning…
  • p. 54 …a system. INTEGRATED X-RAY /NEUTRON SOURCES This integrated inspection system was proposed by G. Miley…
  • p. 55 …This combination will increase spatial resolution and significantly reduce the false alarm rate to a low…
  • p. 56 …1.1 g/cm3, and metal utensils, including knives. The list provides a guide for use…
  • p. 63 …in a reactor embodiment, both leaking fuel plasma and energetic charged fusion products (e.g. the…
  • p. 66 …Shaban, and G. H. Miley, "Fusion Ship 59 II- A Fast Manned Interplanetary Space Vehicle Using…
  • p. 67 …If such a program can be initiated aggressively, the IEC could have a major impact on…
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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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1.5 G.H. Miley, et al., "Inertial-electrostatic confinement neutron proton source,"
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(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
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1.7 N. A. Krall, "The Polywell™: A Spherically Convergent Ion Focus Concept", Fusion
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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).
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spherical plasma oscillations in electrostatic confinement devices", Physics of
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1.12 J. Park, R. A. Nebel, S. Stange, S. K. Murali, "Periodically oscillating plasma
sphere", Physics of Plasmas 12, (2005) 056315.
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