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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//509 QFFHil.t.k '1181!!! 8HL'I' Contents Preface ..................................................................................................................vii Section I. IEC Background and Basics .................................................................... 1 IEC Background .................................................................................................. 3 IEC Basics .......................................................................................................... S Bussard HEPS (or Polywell) Concept ............................................................ 10 Barnes Nebel Penning Trap .......................................................................... 10 Nebel POPS Device ....................................................................................... 10 Miley's "Ion Injected" Device ....................................................................... 11 Closing Remarks .............................................................................................. 12 References ....................................................................................................... 13 Section II. Select Experiments ............................................................................. 14 Closing Comments ............................................................................................ 20 References ....................................................................................................... 20 Section III. Other Geometries .............................................................................. 21 Cylindrical IECs ................................................................................................ 21 Electrically-Driven IEC Jet Thruster .................................................................. 22 Relation to Other Prior Thrusters ................................................................. 23 JET Extraction From a Spherical IEC ............................................................. 24 Description of the IEC Jet Thruster .............................................................. 24 Comparison to a Conventional "Plasma" Thruster ........................................ 24 Jet Extraction ............................................................................................... 26 Experimental Jet Design and Performance ................................................... 26 Scale-up to p- 11 B IEC Space Power Unit/Thruster ........................................ 28 The Dipole Assisted IEC (DaIEC) .................................................................. 29 DAIEC Experiments .......................................................................................... 30 Khachan's Studies at U of Sydney .................................................................... 31 Concluding Remarks ......................................................................................... 32 References ....................................................................................................... 32 iii UNCLASSIFIED/ /F81it 8FFIIIAk '1181! &••kY
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Report, from the dia collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 72 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.