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.