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Advanced Nuclear Propulsion for Manned Deep Space
Missions
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Contents
Magnetic Entrapment of the Charged Fusion Products and the Stopping of the
Neutron Entrapment in an Autocatalytic Thermonuclear Detonation Wave - a
Means to Increase the Specific Impulse and to Solve the Large Radiator Problem 18
Appendix: Conjectured Metastable Superexplosives Formed Under High Pressure
Bombardment of a Solid Target With an Intense Relativistic Electron or Ion
Bombardment of a Solid Target With Beams or By Hypervelocity Impact,
Deuterium, Argon Ion Lasers, and Kev Superexplosives ........................................ 1
The Nonfission Ignition of Small Deuterium Nuclear Explosives .......................... 13
Delivery of a Gev Proton Beam Onto the Deuterium Fusion Explosive .................. 15
Testing the Deuterium Microdetonation Concept.................................................. 20
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Figures
Figure 13. The Superconducting Toroidal Capacitor and Its Discharge Onto the
Figure 15. With Increasing Pressure, Electron-Bridges are Formed Between
Figure 2. Pure Deuterium Fusion Explosion Ignited With an Intense Ion Beam ... 14
Figure 6. Autocatalytic Thermonuclear Detonation Using a Soft X-ray ................. 18
Figure 9. Artist's Conception of a 1.5-km-Long Super Marx Generator ................. 21
Figure 10. Detail View of a Section of the Super Marx Generator ......................... 22
Figure 12. Showing a Few Elements of the Super Marx Generator ....................... 22
Shells Inside Shells Melting Into Common Shells ................................ 26
Figure 17. Inertial Confinement Fast-Ignition Configuration ................................ 30
Tables
Table 1. The Charged Fusion Products of a Detonation in Deuterium: Their
Table 2. Critical Ignition Currents for Thermonuclear Reactions ............................ 8
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Advanced Nuclear Propulsion for Manned Deep Space
Missions
Preface
My interest in space flight dates to when I was about 10 years old and
received as a birthday gift a popular book about the feasibility of space flight.
From it I learned for the first time about Oberth and Goddard and of the
possibility of reaching the Moon with a multistage rocket. This occurred at the
same time that Hahn and Strassmann announced the discovery of nuclear
fission, with the possibility of an a…