UK-based nuclear fusion company First Light Fusion has announced a new technical partnership aimed at rapidly advancing towards a new pilot plant based on its unique projectile fusion technology, while addressing the need for tritium harvesting.
The proposed 60 MW pilot plant has been designed to minimise the barriers to a first-of-a-kind (FOAK) commercial power plant, while reducing overall costs and engineering risk, and accelerate the development of a secure supply of tritium, by enabling a revenue-generating pilot plant with less stringent engineering requirements.
First Light Fusion, which was spun out from the University of Oxford in July 2011, said the need to address the requirement for new tritium production is central to the design of the pilot plant.
The proposed 60 MW pilot plant has been designed to minimise the barriers to a first-of-a-kind (FOAK) commercial power plant, while reducing overall costs and engineering risk, and accelerate the development of a secure supply of tritium, by enabling a revenue-generating pilot plant with less stringent engineering requirements.
First Light Fusion, which was spun out from the University of Oxford in July 2011, said the need to address the requirement for new tritium production is central to the design of the pilot plant.
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