Inertial electrostatic confinement, or IEC, is a class of fusion power devices that use electric fields to confine the plasma rather than the more common...

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tritium gas to temperatures sufficient for creating fusion. Inertial electrostatic confinement devices such as the Farnsworth-Hirsch fusor use an electric...

magnetically-shielded-grid inertial electrostatic confinement device" presented a theory for a gridded inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) fusion system...

and the company changed its name to TAE. Several types of inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) devices are proposed as reactors. The classic example...

II", "VISTA" concepts. Another popular confinement concept for fusion rockets is inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC), such as in the Farnsworth-Hirsch...

neutrons. Another type of innovative neutron generator is the inertial electrostatic confinement fusion device. This neutron generator avoids using a solid...

collide in the center, they can fuse. This is one kind of an inertial electrostatic confinement device – a branch of fusion research. A Farnsworth–Hirsch...

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scientific and engineering questions remain. The most well known Inertial electrostatic confinement approach is the fusor. Starting in 1999, a number of amateurs...

small nuclear fusion device, the Farnsworth Fusor, employing inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC). Like many fusion devices, it was not a practical device...

US Patent 3,386,883 June 4, 1968 Hirsch, Robert L (1967). "Inertial-Electrostatic Confinement of Ionized Fusion Gases". Journal of Applied Physics. 38 (11):...

(MCF) but in the inertial case it is more usefully expressed in a different form. A good approximation for the inertial confinement time τ E {\displaystyle...

examples of the fusor-type nuclear fusion reactor that uses inertial electrostatic confinement Fusors have been theoretically studied at multiple institutions...

the solar system. Bussard worked on a promising new type of inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) fusor, called the Polywell, that has a magnetically...

Bussard in 1995 and funded by the US Navy. Polywell uses inertial electrostatic confinement. He founded EMC2 to continue polywell research. A picosecond...

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temperature forty times as hot as that of the sun using an inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) device, which was a variation of the fusor that was...

Inertial Fusion Energy is a proposed approach to building a nuclear fusion power plant based on performing inertial confinement fusion at industrial scale...

Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is a fusion energy process that initiates nuclear fusion reactions by compressing and heating targets filled with fuel...

hot. The major division is between magnetic confinement and inertial confinement. In magnetic confinement, the tendency of the hot plasma to expand is...

Krishnamurthy, Akshata (2012). Development and characterization of an inertial electrostatic confinement thruster (M.S. thesis). UIUC. Retrieved 21 December 2023....

to develop the technologies necessary to convert the laser-driven inertial confinement fusion concept being developed in the National Ignition Facility...

energies with room temperature equipment Polywell fusion, uses inertial electrostatic confinement to attract and confine ions so densely that they fuse Nuclear...

of a plasma. Magnetic confinement is one of two major branches of controlled fusion research, along with inertial confinement fusion. Fusion reactions...

power concept that combines features of magnetic confinement fusion (MCF) and inertial confinement fusion (ICF). Like the magnetic approach, the fusion...

reactor. In his article Neutron activation analysis using an inertial electrostatic confinement fusion device he indicated that his apparatus did not produce...

after a suggestion by Stanislaw Ulam in 1947. Newer designs using inertial confinement fusion have been the baseline for most later designs, including Project...

the demise of the original project, Bussard moved on to new inertial electrostatic confinement fusion designs with extremely high claimed performance. This...