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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.
UNCLASSIFIED//F811. 8FFll!l*L 1!1!11! 8HL"i' D-D IEC for 1 rsA D-T IFC for PFNAiFNA Detector Array / / ' (-~)/ / Lu•gg..,ge ' 'IEC for x-ray \r ' -,.._____....-- ~ I \ Top View I I Figure 5.2. Schematic (view from top} of a broad coverage IEC inspection System for luggage inspection This unit employs two broad area neutron sources to provide both 14.1-MeV and 2.45- MeV neutron coverage. The IEC Bremsstrahlung source provides broad area 80 kV x- rays. An array of gamma and x-ray detectors is provided for simultaneous x-ray analysis using a fuzzy logic artificial intelligence system to interpret the combined signals. In the inspection station, shown in Figure 5.2, typical of airport luggage inspection stations, objects being interrogated pass between sources and detection array on a conveyor belt. For maximum efficiency a duplicate conveyor belt and detection array (not shown in Figure 5.2) would be placed on the left hand side of the IEC sources. For other cases, such as unloading container from a ship the detectors system might be suspended along the side of the vessel with containers as they are lowered from the upper decks to the waiting cargo train cars or trucks (see Figures 5.3 and 5.4 and related discussion). The challenge in these systems is that the unloading time is short and the container is large and thick. The present system with its multi-lEC broad coverage and fast fuzzy analysis technology is designed to overcome these issues. Further, conventional accelerator type systems that are candidates for such use are hampered by size and cost. Thus, they have not received wide use in sea ports. The increased accuracy and reduced cost of the present system should enable wide use. This would close a vital gap in our seaport/airport cargo security that has been widely cited by critics of the present handling of port security. 51 UNCLASSIFIED/ /r;Oll OFFlliil,t.k Wliili &•It~·
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