Fusion Plant

A Fusion Plant (or "F-Plant") is a facility where power is generated using a nuclear fusion process.

• At higher technology levels, fusion power plants become much smaller (e.g. the "Power Plant" or "P-Plant" used in most starship engineering compartments) and eventually portable. The "Fusion+" power plant (or "F+ module") is one such development in portability.

Description

Standard Fusion Plants reduce the reactor pressures and energies at lower tech levels through utilization of the proton-proton reaction, while at higher technology levels the CNO reaction chain provides more power, but requires a higher confinement temperature.

History

At lower technology levels the power levels available are limited by the confinement chamber and electromagnetic field forces, which as the technology advances are able to increase the power output for a certain volume, and reduce the minimum size of the reaction confinement chamber. Fusion processes that have been used historically throughout Charted Space at one time or another by various cultures include:

Thermonuclear & Inertial Confinement Fusion

• Deuterium Fusion (D-D) (Primarily used in Fusion pre-burners for Tritium (₁H³) or Helion (₂He³) production)
• Standard deuterium-cycle Thermonuclear Reactor (Deuterium-Tritium Fusion) (D-T)
• Light-Helium Reactor (Aneutronic Deuterium-Helion Fusion) (D-He³) - Proton-plasma EMF current induction
• Deuterium-Lithium Reactor (Aneutronic Deuterium-Lithium Fusion) (D-Li⁶) - Alpha-plasma EMF current induction

Gravitic & Damper-mediated Compression Reactions

• Experimental Proton-Proton Cycle Fusion (p-p)
• Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen Cycle Catalyzed Proton Fusion (CNO-Cycle)
• Proton-Lithium Reactor (Aneutronic proton-Lithium Cycle Fusion (⁷Li-p) - Alpha-plasma EMF current induction
• Proton-Boron Reactor (Aneutronic Boron-proton Cycle Fusion (¹¹B-p) - Alpha-plasma EMF current induction
• Damper-mediated Muon-catalyzed Cold Fusion Reactor (μ_/gNF)

Fusion-Plus Technologies

• Piezo-nuclear Fusion Module (PNF) ("Cold Fusion")
• Fusion-Plus Module (F+) ("Cold Fusion")
• Rapid-Overclock Damper-mediated Proton-cycle Fusion (P-Plant)
• Standard Damper-mediated Proton-cycle Fusion Facility (F-Plant)

References

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