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Le projet de fusion en UK de First Light Fusion

Message par energy_isere » 06 janv. 2019, 09:49

Fusion reactions project attracts UK funding

07 December 2018

The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and First Light Fusion are collaborating on a project to convert fusion reactions into heat to enable clean power production. The 'fusion island' project is to be partly funded by a grant from the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

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A rendering of Machine 3 (Image: First Light Fusion)

First Light Fusion plans to demonstrate fusion by the middle of next year and to demonstrate 'gain' - generating more energy than that required to create fusion reactions - by 2024. No fusion energy project has achieved this yet. A key step in the development of First Light’s vision is the creation of a fusion island, a sub-system that converts fusion energy into heat and manages fuel supply in a fusion power plant.

Thanks in part to an Energy Entrepreneurs Fund grant from BEIS, a fusion island concept development project is now under way. BEIS created the competitive funding scheme to support the development and demonstration of state-of-the-art technologies, products and processes in energy efficiency, power generation and heat and electricity storage.

Nick Hawker, founder and CEO of First Light Fusion, said: "We believe that the UK is one of the very best countries in the world in which to pursue our endeavour, powering a world worth inheriting. We are delighted that BEIS has recognised the quality, value and credibility of the work we have done so far."

Ian Chapman, CEO of UKAEA, said: "Fusion energy is an extraordinarily important area, and UKAEA is proud to be the home to world-leading expertise in the field. We are very pleased to be able to work with First Light Fusion and provide them with access to these capabilities for their exciting fusion programme."

In July, First Light Fusion successfully fired the first test 'shot' on one of the six limbs of its newly-constructed pulsed power machine and swiftly proceeded to test three-limb shots in September. The full machine is currently being commissioned, ahead of schedule. Once fully commissioned, Machine 3 will be the only pulsed power machine of its scale in the world dedicated to researching fusion energy. It can discharge up to 200,000 volts and more than 14 million amperes - the equivalent of nearly 500 simultaneous lightning strikes - within two microseconds. The GBP3.6 million (USD4.6 million) machine will use some 3 kilometres of high-voltage cables and another 10 kilometres of diagnostic cables.

Machine 3 will be used to further research First Light Fusion’s technology as the company seeks to demonstrate first fusion next year.

First Light uses a high-velocity projectile to create a shockwave to collapse a cavity containing plasma inside a 'target'. The design of these targets is First Light's "technical USP", the company said.

First Light Fusion was founded by Professor Yiannis Ventikos, who is currently the head of the Mechanical Engineering Department at University College, London, and Dr Nicholas Hawker, formerly an engineering lecturer at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. The company was spun out from the University of Oxford in July 2011, with seed capital from IP Group plc, Parkwalk Advisors Ltd and private investors. Invesco and OSI provided follow-on capital.

UKAEA, a research organisation responsible for the development of nuclear, is an executive non-departmental public body of BEIS.
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Message par energy_isere » 10 mars 2019, 10:16

First Light Fusion commissions pulsed power device

12 February 2019


The UK's First Light Fusion has successfully completed constructing and testing its Machine 3 - the only pulsed power machine of its scale in the world dedicated to researching fusion energy. The company aims to demonstrate first fusion later this year.

First Light uses a high-velocity projectile to create a shockwave to collapse a cavity containing plasma inside a 'target'. The design of these targets is First Light's "technical USP", the company said.

Machine 3 can discharge up to 200,000 volts and more than 14 million amperes - the equivalent of nearly 500 simultaneous lightning strikes - within two microseconds. The GBP3.6 million (USD4.6 million) machine uses some 3 kilometres of high-voltage cables and another 10 kilometres of diagnostic cables. Machine 3 uses electromagnetism to fire projectiles at around 20 kilometres per second.

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Re: Le projet de fusion en UK de First Light Fusion

Message par energy_isere » 31 oct. 2020, 10:00

En UK il y a aussi les recherches menées par le UK Atomic Energy Authority :
UK’s first nuclear fusion power plant is now one step closer

30 OCTOBER 2020

After a seven year assembly, the UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA)’s £55 million machine has reached a new milestone.

The machine, labelled Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) Upgrade, achieved ‘first plasma,’ which means all the essential components are working together simultaneously.

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One of the biggest challenges in fusion research has been to extract the amount of excess heat from the plasma. UKAEA’s scientists now plan to test a new exhaust system called the ‘Super-X divertor’ at MAST Upgrade.
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“Backed by £55 million of government funding, powering up the MAST Upgrade device is a landmark moment for this national fusion experiment and takes us another step closer towards our goal of building the UK’s first fusion power plant by 2040.”
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https://www.pesmedia.com/nuclear-fusion-ukaea-30102020/

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Re: Le projet de fusion en UK de First Light Fusion

Message par energy_isere » 03 nov. 2020, 19:13

suite du post au dessus.
[Vidéo] Le Royaume-Uni relance la course à la fusion nucléaire avec un nouveau réacteur

ROMAN EPITROPAKIS Usine Nouvelle le 03/11/2020

Avec la mise sous tension le 29 octobre de son réacteur Mega Amp, le Royaume-Uni franchit une étape de plus vers l’énergie à fusion nucléaire. Plus efficace, non polluante, moins exigeante en matériaux, la fusion nucléaire a tout pour plaire. Même s'il faut s'armer de patience...

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L’expérience de la fusion nucléaire est repartie pour les Britanniques. Selon un article de la BBC, le Royaume-Uni a mis sous tension le 29 octobre son nouveau réacteur « amélioré » de fusion nucléaire, dénommé Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak (Mast) Upgrade, situé dans le comté d'Oxford.
vidéo de 3 mn dans le lien.

par la BBC :
UK fusion experiment used in hunt for clean energy

By Paul Rincon Science editor, BBC News website Published 4 days ago

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The £55m machine has taken seven years to build.

Mast (Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak) Upgrade will use an innovative design known as a spherical tokamak.
Most tokamaks are shaped like a doughnut. But in Mast Upgrade, the size of the doughnut's hole has been reduced as much as possible, giving the plasma an almost spherical profile.
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"Backed by £55m of government funding, powering up the Mast Upgrade Device is a landmark moment for this national fusion experiment and takes us another step closer towards our goal of building the UK's first fusion power plant by 2040."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54741375

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Re: Le projet de fusion en UK de First Light Fusion

Message par energy_isere » 14 mai 2021, 16:25

First Light Fusion completes two-stage gas gun within 10 months

13 May 2021

First Light Fusion has completed construction of a 22-metre-long two-stage gas gun as part of its experimental efforts to develop "a simpler, faster, and cheaper route" to commercial fusion energy. The UK company says it has successfully fired first test shots, with fusion experimental shots on the new device starting next month.
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https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Arti ... as-gun-wit

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