Zap Energy's Century is claimed to be the first fully-integrated demonstration of several fusion power plant-relevant technologies.
A Seattle-based fusion company has showcased its new prototype device. Called Century, the Zap Energy ’s device is claimed to be the first fully-integrated demonstration of several fusion power plant-relevant technologies.
Fusion energy is created when the forces separating the centers of atoms are overcome, and two smaller nuclei fuse into a larger one.The company previously worked on fusion technology to heat deuterium and tritium to millions of degrees Fahrenheit until they fuse into high-energy helium and neutrons, which can be captured to generate heat and electricity.It relies on method known as Sheared-flow-stabilized Z-pinch.
“We’re developing all of the key enabling technologies that we’re going to need to deliver commercial fusion. We think that doing all of this in parallel — everything all-together, all-at-once type thing — is the fastest way to actually deliver a commercial product. Century is the incarnation of that,” Conway toldwas tested as far back as the 1950s, researchers were stymied by how quickly the plasmas fizzled out.
It can also circulate 70 kilograms of hot liquid bismuth in its initial configuration and well over a ton in its final configuration. Air-cooled heat exchangers will remove the intense plasma heat absorbed by the liquid metal.“Zap’s fusion approach is pulsed, so ultimately it will run like an internal combustion engine with cylinders firing all day long to produce steady energy output,” said Zap VP of Systems Engineering Matthew C. Thompson.
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