Defense Intelligence Reference Document Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion

“The Times”31 pages

• p. 8 …This is important for long run times since 10n bombardment of the grids, hence grid wire…
• p. 9 …This time can be restated in terms of the number of ion recirculations in the IEC…
• p. 15 …This work and others on the small gridded systems at that time showed several important problems…
• p. 17 …interesting concept is the idea of ion focusing, either in space or time, or some other…
• p. 18 …confinement time for aneutronic fusion. This assumes, however, very precise control is maintained over the energy…
• p. 23 …By selecting the pulse width to match or exceed the ion confinement time, typically order of…
• p. 27 …This is the approach used at the UIUC. However, introduction of the source into the configuration…
• p. 30 …The second jet would serve the integration purpose of the platform without having to expend time…
• p. 35 …The issue then is how to achieve adequate confinement times. The approach being pursued at UIUC…
• p. 36 …step in a timely fashion, however. The Dipole Assisted IEC (DaIEC) The dipole assisted IEC DaIEC…
• p. 38 …in the current experiment. It is found that electron density increases about 17 times more than…
• p. 41 …Namely, the time scale for collisional degradation of the beam-like ion distribution function is crucial…
• p. 42 …would homogenize the speed within the ion beam a~er some time, making the speed difference…
• p. 43 …1) The electrostatic well is deep enough (Eo > 100 kV); 2) Ion confinement time is long…
• p. 44 …The source to sink issue noted several times here can be explained as follows. Two opposite…
• p. 49 …The time convergence test suggests that employing the largest time step compatible with accuracy in a…
• p. 50 …When an ion beam is hot, the waves excited by the instability are ion acoustic type…
• p. 51 …used an analytical model of charge- exchange collisions in the IEC plasma to include ion time…
• p. 53 …Nevins, Can inertial electrostatic confinement work beyond the ion-ion collisional time scale?" Phys. Plasmas, Vol…
• p. 54 …This method uses a pulsed high-energy neutron source and the time-of-flight (TOF) diagnostics…
• p. 57 …The longer the charge time, the higher the charge in the energy storage capacitor bank and…
• p. 58 …The challenge in these systems is that the unloading time is short and the container is…
• p. 59 …by the number of detectors, the detector configuration, the collimated beam size, the acquisition time, and…
• p. 62 …The Tokamak has a shorter trip time by employing a power level that is six times…
• p. 63 …In this fashion, an array of multiple IECs increase the overall confinement time roughly in proportion…
• p. 64 …This recirculation significantly increases the confinement time verses that of a simple cusp devise, leading to…
• p. 65 …This re-trapping greatly increases the confinement time of a MCSA fusion device. 58 UNCLASSIFIED/;CEiOAt…
• p. 66 …in the IEC high power-to-weight of the MCSA enables fast trip times. The concept…
• p. 67 …across the outer surface, so increased confinement times have been achieved by going to the massively…
• p. 68 …Here n is the ion density and Tis the ion confinement time. Assuming the converged core…
• p. 69 …A specially designed radio frequency (RF) ion gun is installed on the side of the chamber…