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WHDL - 00011618

Radiation Shielding Using Magnetic Fields

Resource Types

Academic (Thesis, Dissertation, Etc.)

Resource Languages

English

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Description / Abstract

Radiation shielding is essential to future missions of space exploration due to increased time of exposure to harmful radiation. One of the most damaging and dicult types of radiation to stop is High Atomic Number and Energy (HZE) particles in Galactic Cosmic Radiation (GCR). These particles are fully ionized and travel at near light speeds. The most dangerous of these are iron nuclei. Many shielding options have been proposed in both active and passive categories of shielding. This research explores several previously proposed methods of both active and passive shielding and proposes a method using a combination of active and passive shielding in an attempt to maximize the detection of radiation, minimize the production of secondary radiation, create a net thrust from the redirected particles, create useable power with captured synchrotron and Bremsstrahlung radiation, and account for space being a diuse plasma.

Arete: The PLNU Honors Journal