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Luis Chacón, George H. Miley
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 30 | Number 3 | December 1996 | Pages 1320-1325
Innovative Approaches to Fusion Energy | doi.org/10.13182/FST96-A11963131
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D-3He fusion minimizes neutrons and maximizes charged fusion products, enabling increased energy recovery efficiency by direct conversion. However, scarce 3He terrestrial resources1 have deterred research & development (R&D) on this alternative. Here, we explore 3He production through inertial electrostatic confinement (IEC) breeders, which supply 3He to field-reversed configuration (FRC) satellite reactors.2 The breeder-satellite system is analyzed in terms of energy balance, taking the net energy gain of the overall system as the key parameter. An economic study determines the competitiveness of breeding with respect to 3He lunar mining, already shown to be an attractive route for commercial exploitation.3