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Pacific Fusion predicts “1,000-fold leap” in performance, net facility gain by 2030
Inertial fusion energy (IFE) developer Pacific Fusion, based in Fremont, Calif., announced this morning that it is on target to achieve net facility gain—more fusion energy out than all energy stored in the system—with a demonstration system by 2030, and backs the claim with a technical paper published yesterday on arXiv: “Affordable, manageable, practical, and scalable (AMPS) high-yield and high-gain inertial fusion.”
P. W. Fisher, M. J. Gouge
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 515-520
Fueling and Tritium Handling Technology (Poster Session) | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963664
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
As part of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) plasma fueling development program, Oak Ridge National Laboratory has fabricated a pellet injection system to test the mechanical and thermal properties of extruded tritium. This repeating single-stage, pneumatic, Tritium-Proof-of-Principle Phase II (TPOP-II) Pellet Injector has a piston-driven mechanical extruder and is designed to extrude and accelerate hydrogenic pellets sized for the ITER device. Tritium and deuterium-tritium (D-T) pellets have been produced in experiments at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Tritium Systems Test Assembly. About 38 g of tritium was used in the experiment. This paper presents results of the TPOP-II extrusion experiments. These extrusion experiments indicate that both T2 and D-T will require higher extrusion forces than D2 by about a factor of 2 and that the flow of the material may be characterized by static and dynamic shear strengths.