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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.”
T. Yamanishi, S. Konishi, T. Hayashi, Y. Kawamura, Y. Iwai, T. Maruyama, T. Kakuta, S. O'hira, H. Nakamura, K. Kobayashi, M. Nishi, T. Nagashima, M. Ohta
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 536-540
Fueling and Tritium Handling Technology (Poster Session) | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963668
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An integrated fusion fuel loop was constructed. A palladium diffuser first treated a simulated plasma exhaust gas, that is a mixture of hydrogen isotopes and impurities such as helium and methane. A pure hydrogen isotopes stream was sent to a cascade of cryogenic distillation columns. The impurities were processed with a unit of an electrolytic reactor and a palladium diffuser. The integrated fusion fuel loop was thus demonstrated. A major result was that the electrolytic reactor processed methane successfully in a gas phase without using the catalysts. A laser Raman analysis system installed into the cryogenic distillation columns gave a set of analysis results with no time delay and no sampling gas exhaust. It was demonstrated that the laser Raman was a promising analysis system for the control of the fusion fuel loop.