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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. 5 …at 25mtorr, 20mA 31
Figure 4.1. Cross Section of the Experimental Layout of the PFX…
- p. 6 …p- 11B Fusion Cross Section Energy Requirements ............................... 62
Figure 6.2. IEC System With Radio Frequency…
- p. 8 …In practice however, the scattering
cross section is larger than the fusion cross section. Thus many…
- p. 9 …on
the fuel via the selection of cross sections in the derivation. Magnetic confinement is
generally…
- p. 26 …near the peak energy of the fusion cross
section. Thus this issue deserves more study to…
- p. 27 …can provide valuable data regarding 3He fusion cross sections at "low"
energies with better counting statistics…
- p. 33 …the
plasma to expand giving a broad cross section beam.
Experimental Jet Design and Performance
Figure…
- p. 41 …it suffers from several
Figure 4.1. Cross Section of the Experimental Layout
of the PFX…
- p. 52 …D2+ ions have a smaller CX cross section and it takes about 20
passes for most…
- p. 65 …point, the vector direction
they assume in crossing the null is random. The result then can…
- p. 68 …the
peak of the p- 11 B cross section. In contrast, in Maxwellian-type plasmas typical…
- p. 69 …p- 11 B Fusion Cross Section Energy Requirements. The p-"B reaction rate
approaches that of…
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and the exhaust plasma collection/recovery system. Also the chamber wall must
incorporate advanced cooling methods to handle the large surface heat loads caused by
near surface absorption of the bremmstrahlung emission. There are no "show stoppers"
however, so the road map to IEC fusion power seems clear. The main challenge is to
find funding sources with the "will" to proceed.
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