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This NASA Glenn overview presents an advanced energy conversion project whose goal is power and energy sources for long-duration deep space missions. The team reports demonstrating bremsstrahlung photoneutron initiated fusion in what they describe as a globally cold, locally hot environment. They state that the process is repeatable and works with different lattice materials holding the deuteron fuel. Their calculations indicate that electron screening increases localized fusion rates in dense fuel and increases large angle scattering between charged particles, enhancing quantum tunneling. Predicted fusion rates are consistent with the observed neutron flux, and the work appeared as two papers in Physical Review C.

Lattice Confinement Fusion (LCF) Overview