Fusion Fuel Cycles
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Fusion Fuel Cycles Inc. is a joint venture set up by the Japanese company Kyoto Fusioneering and Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) to develop the fuel cycle of a fusion power plant: the systems that pump tritium and other hydrogen isotopes out of the reactor, purify them and feed them back in. Its project, UNITY-2, aims to raise the technical maturity of these systems, drawing on CNL's experience of handling hydrogen isotopes. Its own website returned no readable content when we checked, so this description rests on Kyoto Fusioneering's account.
- Sector
- Supply chain, Fusion
- Fuel
- Deuterium–tritium
- Role
- Supplier
Terms
- Deuterium–tritium
- Lowest ignition threshold; 80% of energy in 14.1 MeV neutrons. The reference fuel for every near-term net-gain claim.
- Tritium handling
- Storage, recovery and accounting for tritium. It is radioactive, mobile, expensive, and the world civil inventory is small enough to constrain the whole sector.
Related companies
Sources
- Fusion Fuel Cyclesoperator
- Kyoto Fusioneering: technology pageoperator