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. 10 …were focused at the center of the sphere (Reference 1.2). While Hirsh worked with Farnsworth…
p. 12 …potential wells around the center of the sphere such that the ion density goes to infinity…
p. 17 …achieved by the POPS (Periodically Oscillating Plasma Sphere) oscillations. Recent work has shown that by properly…
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p. 30 …to form over multiple areas around the sphere would allow the platform to maneuver itself close…
p. 32 …Second, transforming the device into a sphere makes the overall unit more compact per unit-ion…
p. 33 …The ion beams finally exit through an opening in the ground sphere of the IEC device…
p. 39 …measurement to show charged micron sized insulating spheres (dust) experience a force away from the cathode…
p. 71 …dense core spot formed in the IEC sphere, ~ is the number of ion recirculations in the…

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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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