Amazon's Jeff Bezos CEO invested 11 billion yen, a nuclear power plant started in 2025
Fusion Energy startup
General Fusion Closes $ 65M of Series E Financing
https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/12/16/1960827/0/en/General-Fusion-Closes-65M-of-Series-E-Financing.html
General Fusion gets a $ 65M boost for fusion power plant – GeekWire
https://www.geekwire.com/2019/general-fusion-gets-65m-boost-fusion-power-plant-investors-including-jeff-bezos/
Bezos-Backed Fusion Startup Raises $ 100 Million for Demo System-Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-16/bezos-backed-fusion-start-up-raises-100-million-for-demo-system
Canada-based General Fusion announced on December 16, 2019 that it has raised $ 65 million in funding and has completed a series E investment round . Christopher Mowley, CEO of General Fusion, said in the announcement: “The success of this financing is evidence that stakeholders around the world have begun action towards the realization of fusion power generation. I am proud that the house is trusting in our success, ”he said, and the construction project for the fusion demonstration plant was officially launched.
The fusion power generation that General Fusion is planning to produce energy through the same
If you look at the following movie, you can see the mechanism of General Fusion's fusion reactor in one shot.
Inside a General Fusion Power Plant-YouTube
The fusion reactor, which is the heart of the power plant, has a ball-like appearance with countless pierced pistons.
The cross section looks like this.
To generate electricity, first of all, plasma generated by ionizing hydrogen gas ...
Blow into the furnace vessel.
The inner wall of the furnace vessel is covered with liquid metal ...
Liquid metal is pressurized by pushing down the piston of the furnace vessel.
This pressure causes the plasma to undergo a fusion reaction.
Liquid metal heated by fusion energy ...
Sent to the heat exchanger.
The basic mechanism of the fusion reactor built by General Fusion is to generate electrical energy from this heat.
So far General Fusion has raised 50 million Canadian dollars (about 4.1 billion yen) from a Canadian government fund, and 100 million dollars (about 11 billion yen) from Bezos Expeditions owned by Mr. Bezos In total, more than 200 million dollars (22 billion yen) have been collected from all over the world. It is estimated that a total of about 300 million dollars (about 33 billion yen) will be required to complete the demonstration plant construction project, and General Fusion will continue to raise funds through venture capital etc. is.
Mourie said, “We are aiming to start power generation faster than the international thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER) of 25 billion dollars (35 billion dollars) with 35 countries participating,” I was motivated to realize the integrated power generation at an early stage.
ITER, which is implemented in 35 countries including Japan, is also aiming for the first operation in 2025, which is the same as General Fusion's fusion demonstration plant. In the future, fierce technological competition is expected in the fusion field. The
The world's first commercial-scale fusion reactor is scheduled to start operation in 2025, 35 countries including Japan cooperate-GIGAZINE
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