Design and construction of inertial electrostatic confinement fusion device

In this paper, design and construction of an inertial electrostatic confinement fusion device which produces continuous neutron flux by the inertial electrostatic confinement fusion is reported. The device is a stainless steel cylindrical chamber of 60 cm in height and 60 cm in diameter. Inside the chamber two concentric stainless steel-made spherical electrodes of 13.5 cm and 41 cm in diameter were installed. At a deuteron 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 Geiger-Mueller 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.