Abstract
In this paper, Egyptian first inertial electrostatic confinement fusion (IECF) device, constructed at the Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority (EAEA-IEC), is introduced the characterization of IEC Plasma Device. It consists of 2.8 cm stainless steel cathode, 6.5 cm anode diameter with 10 cm diameter 30 cm height vacuum chamber. The discharge current and voltage of plasma discharge has been recorded using current probe and resistive voltage divider respectively. The X-ray emissions in IEC plasma device were investigated by employing time-resolved detector. The temporal distributions of detected x-rays emission are occurring during the initial 1 microsecond. The calculated rate of DD-neutron generation using the same electrode configuration about 106 – 108 neutrons/second.
Highlights
In IEC devices, fusion ions are electrostatically accelerated through a spherically symmetric central focus point
The IEC fusion device basically consists of a spherical-gridded cathode concentrically placed at the center of a spherical anode filled with a fuel gas
Fusion reactions in spherical inertial electrostatic confinement (SIEC) devices were first realized by Hirsh [2, 3] using high energy ion guns as a source of ions
Summary
In IEC devices, fusion ions are electrostatically accelerated through a spherically symmetric central focus point. The produced ions are accelerated toward the center through the transparent gridded cathode undergoing fusion reactions. Miley et al [4, 5] carried out experiments using a transparent grid as cathode and a spherical glow discharge as ion source. In their experiments, the measured neutron production rate was a fraction [6] of that of Hirsh’s data, the dependence of the neutron production rate on the device parameters was similar to that of Hirsh
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