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Deuterium Fusion Rockets

Back in the 1950s a lot of work was done on the practical aspects of triggering fusion in various bomb designs and fuels. A relevant fuel is deuterium. Friedwardt Winterberg was a nuclear physicist involved in the very secret work on triggering fusion reactions without using fission bombs to create the solar-interior conditions needed for the reaction. Now some of that work has been declassified and Winterberg has put two new papers on the arXiv…

Deuterium microbomb rocket propulsion

Ignition of a deuterium micro-detonation with a gigavolt super marx generator

…which might allow nuclear fusion Orion-style rockets to launch from Earth without the fallout.

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2 Responses to “Deuterium Fusion Rockets”

  1. Centauri Dreams » Blog Archive » A Micro-Fusion Descendant of Daedalus says:
    December 10, 2008 at 1:10 am

    [...] site, and I see that Adam Crowl, who passed the original URLs along, has written them up at Crowlspace. Winterberg is exploring a range of technologies whose chief interest from the interstellar [...]

  2. Deuterium fusion Starships II « Crowlspace says:
    October 3, 2009 at 3:02 pm

    [...] earlier post… Deuterium fusion rockets [...]

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