The “Project Orion” small fission bomb propulsion concept proposed the one-stage launching of large payloads into low earth orbit, but it was abandoned because of the radioactive fallout into the earth atmosphere. The idea is here revived by the replacement of the small fission bombs with pure deuterium-tritium fusion bombs, and the pusher plate of the Project Orion with a large magnetic mirror...

At present, with increase of requirements in various energy sources, a power plant design for inertial fusion energy (IFE) is a very important problem. The experiments for this part have been carrying out for some main problems only. Main aspects of IFE problem are connected with the physics of proceed of fusion thermonuclear reaction in plasma with inertial keeping, with hydrodynamics and shoc...

Direct evidence of inertially confined fusion ignition appears in the abrupt temperature increase and consequent rapid thermonuclear burn rate as seen reaction history. The Gamma Reaction History (GRH) Gas Cherenkov Detector (GCD) diagnostics are γ-based detectors that provide high quality measurements deuterium–tritium γ ray production are, thus, capable monitoring rate. Temporal shifts both p...