General Fusion in the news

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GF's design makes it easy to build drop in retrofits for gas, oil, coal boilers.

The US Gruberment is 100% stupid, left and right, does not matter. There is no reason all these fusion efforts couldn't be done here, and we have the most to gain. Stupidity is usually tied to corruption. I start cussing every time I think about the poor treatment of fusion here while idiot windmills are erected,
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mvanwink5 wrote:
Thu Jun 17, 2021 2:08 pm
GF's design makes it easy to build drop in retrofits for gas, oil, coal boilers.

The US Gruberment is 100% stupid, left and right, does not matter. There is no reason all these fusion efforts couldn't be done here, and we have the most to gain. Stupidity is usually tied to corruption. I start cussing every time I think about the poor treatment of fusion here while idiot windmills are erected,
If you want to taste "REAL" incapacity and stupidity I can send you some Italian politicians and bureaucrats there for a couple of months.
You will suddenly realize that you are living in paradise compared to our situation :mrgreen:
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Here is another article on the fusion demonstration plant announcement by General Fusion. GF is growing so much that they will soon move to new headquaters as well:
General Fusion will also be revealing the site of its new headquarters in Metro Vancouver, perhaps as early as July, for its staff of about 140 workers.

“What we're looking for is more space, obviously, and a better place to the host the world when they come in and see us,” he said, adding that the company’s headcount has grown by nearly 300% since the end of 2019.
https://biv.com/article/2021/06/general ... demo-plant

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The compression system represents a critical component of the General Fusion's Magnetized Target Fusion technology. It squeezes the hydrogen plasma to the point the plasma reaches fusion conditions. Our compression technology has been refined over the years and we recently commissioned a new testbed called the Cylindrical Water Compressor (CWC). Completed in August 2020, CWC has already run more than 400 tests.
I had not heard that they have actually built a model of what they plan to build, so this is beyond the computer model stage. I was thinking that this was yet to be done, silly me.

GF now has all the components proven.
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Fusion Demonstration Plant

Sheffield Forgemasters will identify routes to manufacture the interior vessel for General Fusion’s Culham-based demonstration plant.

The Oxfordshire facility is an important step to bringing the game-changing benefits of zero-carbon fusion energy to the world.

We are using our extensive experience and manufacturing capabilities in nuclear power to develop a specification and method of manufacture for the forged, thick-walled pressure vessel body, a key component in the proposed Fusion Demonstration Plant.

The Plant will showcase General Fusion’s Magnetized Target Fusion technology at the UKAEA’s world-renowned Culham Campus, which is a leading hub of fusion research.

Jesus Talamantes-Silva, Research, Design and Technology Director at Sheffield Forgemasters said: “Fusion is an exciting technology, which could become a key deliverable for the world’s future green energy provision.”

“Our initial remit includes evaluation of potential steel grades, modelling of forging and heat treatment processes, and their effects on microstructure and properties.”

“The scale and manufacturing complexity of the vessel requires a flexible and responsive approach to the work.”

Sheffield Forgemasters is establishing practical manufacturing solutions for all aspects of manufacture for the vessel, including steelmaking and forging, heat treatment, mechanical and non-destructive testing, machining and metrology.

This work utilises Sheffield Forgemasters’ extensive knowledge and experience relating to the manufacture of pressure vessels and other critical components for nuclear sectors. It also relies on Sheffield Forgemasters’ strengths at developing novel and creative solutions to complex manufacturing challenges.
This is an example of why GF is far ahead of Helon. This is the kind of news that we would need to hear from Helion to start to think they are moving beyond a science experiment.
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mvanwink5 wrote:
Thu Jun 24, 2021 8:47 pm
This is an example of why GF is far ahead of Helon. This is the kind of news that we would need to hear from Helion to start to think they are moving beyond a science experiment.
Who says that Helion is not working on that already? They are a very engineering centered outfit.
General Fusion will have their own set of issues to deal with. They are completely different reactor designs with completely different approaches and a completely different set of issues. The fact that they are working on set of issues that they have to solve for their prototype in Culham does not mean that they are working on all the issues they will be facing with a commercial reactor.

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"Who says that Helion is not working on that already? "
Demonstration plant, suppliers for long lead components selected, published sources for this?

I like good news.
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SJ,
General Fusion will have their own set of issues to deal with.
What issues?
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My guess is that the reason GF chose the UK for building their Demonstration plant is mainly for regulatory reasons.
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mvanwink5 wrote:
Thu Jun 24, 2021 10:00 pm
SJ,
General Fusion will have their own set of issues to deal with.
What issues?
Not as intimately familiar with their plant design. But IIRC, they never mentioned what pulse rate their commercial reactors will have to operate at, nor what their Culham prototype will do. I have not see them talk about, secondary cooling and turbine cycles, Tritium extraction, storage, fueling, etc, etc.
Not saying that these things can't be solved, just that from what I have seen, the Culham prototype won't demonstrate those things yet.

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SJ
GF's planned cycle time has been 1 Hz. A demo plant is not a commercial plant. GF will build the size and operational plant that they need to to get the data they need which includes cycle rate. Each company knows their process and what they need. Balance of plant needed is based on what might be in question. For example heat exchanger design is known, there is no need to buy one to show, similarly turbines, condensers, feed pumps etc.

Obviously you are not an engineer.
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mvanwink5 wrote:
Thu Jun 24, 2021 11:24 pm
SJ
GF's planned cycle time has been 1 Hz. A demo plant is not a commercial plant. GF will build the size and operational plant that they need to to get the data they need which includes cycle rate. Each company knows their process and what they need. Balance of plant needed is based on what might be in question. For example heat exchanger design is known, there is no need to buy one to show, similarly turbines, condensers, feed pumps etc.

Obviously you are not an engineer.
I am an engineer, but not a nuclear or power plant engineer, if that matters.

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Engineers rock!
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Here are som details on the construction of the pressel vessel body for the General Fusion demonstration plant:
Sheffield Forgemasters joins forces with General Fusion on Fusion Demonstration Plant

Sheffield Forgemasters will identify routes to manufacture the interior vessel for General Fusion’s Culham-based demonstration plant.
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https://www.sheffieldforgemasters.com/n ... ion-plant/

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General Fusion is continuing to send out updates on their roll out of commercial fusion power. One issue that many fusion companies have is dealing with tritium separation and storage. Their latest news is:

https://mailchi.mp/generalfusion/partne ... c2986861e1
Through this collaboration, General Fusion and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories will develop tritium extraction techniques for use in commercial fusion power plants.
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To confirm the performance and economics of its MTF technology at a power plant-relevant scale, General Fusion is preparing to build a Fusion Demonstration Plant, which is scheduled to be operational in 2025. The company targets the early 2030s to bring clean fusion energy onto the world’s energy systems.
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