Power Plant

A Power Plant produces the electrical energy that is used as the central power source for a starship or other vessel. While the term "Power plant" is fairly generic, the usage in this particular instance (i.e. the "P-Plant") is referring to a specific power generation system based on Fusion Plus technology that has the ability to "Rapid Overclock", allowing what would normally require a full-size Fusion Plant to be significantly reduced in size to be carried aboard a starship for Jump-Drive operations.

• It is sometimes known as the Fusion Power Plant, P-Plant, or Power Drive.
• It is a kind of Ship Equipment.

Description (Specifications)

A Power Plant utilizes an adaptation of the Fusion Plus process to generate Nuclear Fusion from primarily Light Hydrogen (protium) sources. The distinctive ability of a "Power Plant" (or "P-Plant") over normal Fusion Plus is its ability to process large amounts of fuel very quickly to produce enormous magnitudes of power in relatively short periods of time thru a highly fuel-inefficient process known as the ability to overclock.

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History & Background (Dossier)

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

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