INFROTON 6 MWe Modular Fusion Power Plant

Capacity for sale: 45,000 MWh/year
Expected sales price of the equipment: $40 million
Production cost: 6,5 $/MWh
Dimensions: 12 m x 2.4/3 m high

The Infroton fusion reactors are ideal for supplementing solar and wind power plants, providing energy for data centers, green hydrogen plants, and seawater desalination facilities.

Capsule Power Plant

Energy Cycle

To drive a power plant with a net power of 50 MW, 104 MW of fusion power is required, considering the 50% efficiency of the heat exchanger-turbine-generator, the 10% efficiency of the driving lasers, and the energy supply to other parts of the power plant. This requires the use of 2,500 capsules per hour and the release of 150 MJ of fusion energy per capsule.

Capsule Reactor

The central element of the power plant is the 1.5-meter-diameter reactor, which floats in a continuously flowing liquid metal bath, so it can withstand extreme conditions and can absorb high-energy particles from fusion reactions, including neutrons. The heated liquid metal releases energy through a heat exchanger, which is converted into electricity in a steam turbine.

The operation of the reactor is extremely simple. The capsules, which have been stimulated with a laser to fusion conditions, are shot into a Lithium-Lead eutectic melt circulated at high speed.

Capsule Reactor

The molten LiPb pump then pushes in a larger amount of melt, closing the top of the conical cavity.

A fusion explosion occurs in the melt every second. During the process, the resulting neutrons and Lithium produce tritium, which is also used for energy production.

Capsule

The rugby ball-shaped capsule, filled with 1 mg of deuterium-tritium fuel, with two internal rapid ignition cones and laser entry windows, is made of 20 μm thick copper and 10 μm transparent polymer.

Compression

Whispering-gallery-mode beams introduced into the capsule filled with fusion fuel generate a plasma compression mirror magnetic field and secondary radiation exploding toward the center.

Fast Ignition

The ignition radiation (black arrows) is created by laser injection (red arrows) into the underdense plasma in the cones using the principle of wakefield acceleration. The proton radiation is compressed and focused by a conical magnetic field created by two whispering gallery-mode laser beams fired into the cone.

Plasma-Drop Reactor

The small, typically 2 mm diameter reactor space with an internal fast ignition cone and laser inlet windows was equipped with a fusion plasma exit nozzle.

Suction

We use a magnetic field generated by whispering gallery mode radiation and secondary radiation to seal the inflowing plasma from escaping on the inlet side of the nozzle.

Compression, Fast Ignition

We compress the plasma with the mirror magnetic field and the secondary radiation generated by the whispering gallery operating mode beam, and then ignite the plasma with the ignition radiation as described earlier.

Fusion, Exhaust

The burning of the plasma, the process of fusion, the generation of energy lasts for 10 ns until the mirror magnetic field persists.

Energy Extraction with Heat Exchanger

From 1 mg of burning fusion fuel, at least 150 MJ of energy is transferred in a heat exchanger, from which electricity is generated.

Bubble-Drop Pre-Compression

With a specular magnetic field controlled by whispering gallery mode radiation, we compressed to fusion conditions and drift the bubble drops towards the nozzle.

Bubble-Drop Compression, Fusion, Exhaust

With a magnetic field generated by whispering gallery mode radiation, the bubble-droplet is compressed to fusion density at the inlet side of the nozzle. After the fusion, the bubble-droplet plasma expands and leaves the reactor through the nozzle. If we lead the burning and expanding fusion bubble-droplet plasma into outer space, we generate thrust for rockets, if we lead it into a heat exchanger, we generate electricity by interposing a steam turbine.