Some Thermonuclear Power Plants as the Possible Sources of He3 for Space Propulsion Systems

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Author - M.L. Shmatov

Co-Author(s) -

JBIS Volume # - 60

Page # - 180-187

Year - 2007

Keywords - Nuclear pulse propulsion, He3, thermonuclear power plant, fast ignition

JBIS Reference Code # - 2007.60.180

Number of Pages - 8

[edit] Abstract

It is shown that some thermonuclear power plants can serve as rather powerful He3 sources providing operation of space propulsion systems utilizing the D-He3 microexplosions. Some problems related to ignition of the D-He3 and tritium-poor deuterium microexplosions are considered.


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