General Fusion's 'mini-sphere' Experiment and first Plasma Injector
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First picture: This is General Fusion's 'mini-sphere' experiment. It consists of a 1 metre inner diameter sphere with 14 pistons attached for initiating acoustic compression waves. The individual pistons are the same size (full scale) as those planned for General Fusion's reactor. This system is connected to a pumped liquid lead loop that forms a lead vortex in the sphere. The lead liquid lead loop has a storage capacity of 15 tonnes, and the magnetohydrodynamic pumps can circulate lead at 100 kg/s. The experiment is designed to test all of the key elements of General Fusion's proposed acoustic compression technology.
Second picture: The Plasma Injector is approximately 5 metres long and conical in shape, tapering from 2 metres to 40 centimetres wide. It is powered by a 22 kV, 2.4 MJ energy storage capacitor pulsed power supply. This device is the largest of its type in the world and is a full scale prototype of those planned for General Fusion's reactor. It is designed to produce the spheromak plasmas required for General Fusion's magnetized target fusion technology.