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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. 2 …a series of advanced technology reports produced in FY 2009
under the Defense Intelligence Agency, ~(b…
- p. 11 …the ongoing
work by others, notably at EMC2 on the Bussard Polywell device or the advanced…
- p. 30 …In the jet thruster concept the plasma target at the center of the chamber, created by…
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An added long-term potential advantage of developing the IEC…
- p. 40 …Momota, "Advances in Cylindrical IEC Neutron
Source Design for Driven Sub-Critical Operation," to be published…
- p. 51 …the claim that due to its beam-like non-
Maxwellian plasma, the IEC can burn "advanced…
- p. 56 …Pulsed Power for the Inspection Station
Advanced materials and methods are used in its design to…
- p. 59 …The development of this advanced fuzzy logic system is patterned after a
methodology developed for the…
- p. 62 …Note that this is even true with the Tokamak using a very
"advanced" conceptual design well…
- p. 67 …of the unique ability of the IEC to use non-Maxwellian plasma to burn
advanced fuels…
- p. 69 …projects have continued
to advance IEC basic physics understanding to the point where a pathway to…
- p. 72 …Also the chamber wall must
incorporate advanced cooling methods to handle the large surface heat loads…
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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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