INFROTON Modular Fusion Power Plant
- Fusion Energy: 100 MW (360,000 MJ)
- Efficiency: 32%
- Total Electrical Output: 32 MWe
- Electrical Energy for Internal Use: 2 MWe
- Electrical Energy for Sale: 30 MWe
- Power Plant Sales Price: 120 million USD
Reactor + Laser Module Dimensions: 2.4m x 3.5m x 12m
Energy Converter Module Dimensions: 2.4m x 3.5m x 12m
Capsule Power Plant
Energy Cycle
To drive a power plant with a net power of 30 MW, 100 MW of fusion power is required, considering efficiency of the heat exchanger-turbine-generator, the efficiency of the driving lasers, and the energy supply to other parts of the power plant. This requires the use of 3600 capsules per hour and the release of 100 MJ of fusion energy per capsule.
Capsule Reactor
The interior of the one-meter-diameter reactor, made of tungsten and silicon carbide, is cooled by continuously flowing liquid lead. Fusion capsules are injected into the reactor at high speed, where lasers initiate the fusion reaction. Due to spin polarization, the emission of particles becomes controllable, allowing the high-energy particles produced during fusion to be directed into the liquid lead wall. The lead heats up as it absorbs the particles, and its heat is then converted into electricity through an energy converter.
Capsule
The rugby ball-shaped capsule, filled with 1 mg of deuterium 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.
Energy Production in Reactors without Capsules
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 100 MJ of energy is transferred in a heat exchanger, from which electricity is generated.
Bubble-Drop Reactor
Bubble-Drop Reactor
The small reactor space, typically 2 mm in diameter, with a bubble-droplet generator, an internal fast ignition cone, and laser inlet windows, was equipped with a fusion bubble-droplet plasma exit nozzle.
Bubble-Drop Generation, Energy Input
The droplet bubbles formed by the whispering gallery mode droplet generator are filled with fusion fuel and proton radiation.
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.