مجله علوم و فنون هسته‌ای (Nov 2011)

Design and Construction of Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion Device (IECF)

  • V Damide,
  • A Sadighzadeh,
  • N Abdollahi,
  • A Koohi,
  • A Heidarnia,
  • A.R Aslezaeem,
  • A Bagheri,
  • S Khademzadeh,
  • F Kazemizadeh,
  • H Mehdipour,
  • M Sedaghat,
  • M Torabi,
  • M Kabir

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 32, no. 3
pp. 46 – 50

Abstract

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In this paper, design and construction of an IECF device which produces continuous neutron flux by the inertial electrostatic confinement fusion is reported. The device is a stainless steel cylindrical chamber of 60cm in height and 60cm in diameter. Inside the chamber two concentric stainless steel-made spherical electrodes of 13.5cm and 41cm in diameter were installed. At a deutron gas pressure in the range of 10-3 to 10-2 mbar a condensed plasma during the electric discharge at the central part of two sphere was observed due to the D-D fusion reaction. By using a neutron track detector and a GM counter covered by indium foil, a neutron flux of more than 106 n/S was recorded. In this respect, a neutron dose rate of 100μSv/h by the use of LB6411 neutron dosimeter was also detected.

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