Compact fusion reactors for carbon free combined heat and power generation

用于无碳热电联产的紧凑型聚变反应堆

• 批准号: 106227
• 金额: $ 24.83万
• 依托单位: CROSSFIELD FUSION LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=106227
• 关键词: Compact; fusion; reactors; carbon; free

Crossfield Fusion Ltd is developing a novel compact fusion reactor targeting carbon free heat and power generation.Our vision is to manufacture compact fusion reactors the size of a small shipping containers that can be mass produced in factories. The company's fusion reactor technology is expected to scale up to about 1MWe of electrical output or 2-3MWt of heat. Thus, it is dramatically different in size and output to Tokomak Fusion reactors which promise to deliver 100's-1000's of MWs thus entirely complementary in application. They are also complementary to the small modular reactor program (SMR and AMR) and nuclear power in general as these are again higher output reactors and are physically much larger than those projected by the company.This is an exciting prospect for the future and when developed will positively impact climate change via carbon free district heating and power, carbon free electric vehicle charging and carbon free marine power plants.Prior to achieving these end goals the company will be exploiting the technology commercially as high output compact neutron sources for use in radiotherapy, medical isotope production and material testing applications.

Crossfield Fusion Ltd正在开发一种新型的紧凑型聚变反应堆，目标是无碳供热和发电。我们的愿景是制造小型集装箱大小的紧凑型聚变反应堆，可以在工厂大规模生产。该公司的聚变反应堆技术预计将扩大到约1兆瓦的电力输出或2- 3兆瓦的热量。因此，它在尺寸和输出方面与托克马克聚变反应堆有很大的不同，托克马克聚变反应堆承诺提供100 -1000兆瓦的能量，因此在应用中完全互补。它们也是小型模块化反应堆计划的补充（SMR和AMR）和核能，因为这些反应堆再次是更高输出的反应堆，并且比公司预计的要大得多。这是一个令人兴奋的未来前景，当开发时将通过无碳区域供热和电力对气候变化产生积极影响，无碳电动汽车充电和无碳海洋发电厂。在实现这些最终目标之前，该公司将在商业上利用该技术作为高输出紧凑型中子源用于放射治疗，医用同位素生产和材料测试应用。