Defense Intelligence Reference Document Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion

“Works”29 pages

• p. 7 …Emphasis is placed on work in these areas at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, although…
• p. 8 …of how inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) fusion works. Gas ~ccd I in~ Spherical Vacuum . Chamber !!1…
• p. 10 …While Hirsh worked with Farnsworth to demonstrate early experimental success with IEC experiments (Reference 1.2…
• p. 11 …Such work was soon taken up in several other laboratories, including Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL…
• p. 12 …electron) injected traps (as does the present author's work). This selection was largely driven by…
• p. 15 …This work and others on the small gridded systems at that time showed several important problems…
• p. 17 …Recent work has shown that by properly programming the distribution function of the injected electrons it…
• p. 18 …Results indicate that although the formalism works well during the early phases of compression, when the…
• p. 21 …Hirsch Working With Philo Farnsworth I' I'· 0 ,,, 10•u w "',. ~ 40~ CRONS D- -,C •~7…
• p. 22 …This worked well, but the design was eventually discarded to move to RF guns with much…
• p. 23 …This work substituted a metallic hybrid getter for the external pumping on the IEC chamber. With…
• p. 24 …Another important example of the use of a compact IEC neutron source is the work at…
• p. 25 …2.7) The IEC developed for this work used a magnetron ion generation technique to improve…
• p. 26 …Still the design worked reasonably well for the initial mine detection experiments. Unfortunately, the project was…
• p. 27 …as shown by the hybrid magnetron source work in Japan. Another point noted is the advantage…
• p. 29 …As already noted, the basic physics of this version was originally studied in pioneering work by…
• p. 30 …Relation to Other Prior Thrusters NASA and other laboratories have worked toward developing advanced Hall Thrusters…
• p. 31 …Indeed, the thruster concept arose from work on a fusion based IEC (Reference 3.5). To…
• p. 32 …Khachan's work. It too looks very promising. 25 UNCLASSIFIED/ ,u;oAt OFFIGIPk IP&'i OIIU{
• p. 35 …at the UIUC and several other laboratories working on IECs. The issue then is how to…
• p. 39 …In follow-on work, they simplified the modeling of charge exchange with an analytical approach to…
• p. 40 …Satsangi, "Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Experiments at Low Working Pressure," Prepared under U.S. Army contract DAAK…
• p. 42 …In Chacon's work, a bounce-averaged Fokker-Planck (BAFP) model was employed to obtain steady…
• p. 45 …Before discussing this work, some definitions for the potential well structure will be reviewed. POTENTIAL WELL…
• p. 48 …However, much more work needs to be done along these lines to fully identify the optimal…
• p. 52 …As pointed out by Khachan his work noted D2+ becomes more significant in lower voltages). In…
• p. 53 …Nevins, Can inertial electrostatic confinement work beyond the ion-ion collisional time scale?" Phys. Plasmas, Vol…
• p. 70 …Chacon's work, thermalized ions build up and additional quasi- Maxwellian distriution in the trap). Still…
• p. 71 …To accomplish this result quickly on a modest budget, we need to simplify the work by…