Roadmap to Increase Antimatter Production by 10 Billion Times

Fermilab was able to produce 2 nanograms of antimatter per year, but a new NASA NIAC plan by Gerald Jackson could increase this by 10 billion times to 20 grams per year with a $670 million per year energy cost antimatter factory. They also have a theoretical solution for long-term antimatter storage. They would use the antimatter to trigger nuclear fission to get propulsion up to 10% of light speed. HBar Technologies had proposed an antimatter sail. Antiprotons would cause nuclear fission when they annihilate with the nucleons of Uranium-238 embedded in a sail. The absorption by the nucleus of
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