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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.”
Satoshi Sato, Yasushi Seki, Romano Plenteda, Takashi Inoue, Davide Valenza, Robert T. Santoro, Hiromasa Iida, Hideyuki Takatsu, Kohbun Yamada, Yoshihiro Ohara, Toshihisa Utsumi
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 34 | Number 3 | November 1998 | Pages 1002-1007
Neutronics Experiments and Analysis (Poster Session) | doi.org/10.13182/FST98-A11963744
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Shielding analyses of the ITER neutral beam injector (NBI) ports have been performed using three-dimensional Monte Carlo and two-dimensional discrete ordinates Sn methods. The biological dose rates inside the cryostat after reactor shutdown are expected to be lower than design target of 100 μSv/h for the current NBI reference design with ∼60 cm thick NBI port walls. It was also observed that the total nuclear heating in the toroidal field (TF) coils satisfies the design limit of 17 kW when the port wall is 40 cm thick. The Sn calculations, performed using a rectangular model of the NBI, overestimate the dose rates at the cryostat and nuclear heating in TF coils by factors of ten and two, respectively, compared to Monte Carlo results obtained using a more accurate representation of the NBI system.