New Magnetised Target Fusion power station

 

When we were last in Oxford, the headlines were about a new Fusion Demonstration Plant to be built near Oxford. There have been two ways in the past of containing the plasma - strong magnetic fields and inertial confinement, which seems to be firing them into each other like in a hydrogen bomb. This power station will combine the two approaches. The video on the company website explains it quite well. Liquid lead is spun into a cylinder and hydrogen plasma is injected whilst the liquid lead is squeezed into a cylinder. Fusion takes place which heats the liquid lead. The liquid lead goes through a heat exchanger to heat water to make steam. It looks like it is a pulsed system with repeated fusion events.