{"id":86896,"date":"2019-01-22T03:02:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T11:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/if-tae-technologies-succeeds-with-commercial-fusion-then-a-fusion-rocket-will-follow"},"modified":"2019-01-22T03:02:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T11:02:35","slug":"if-tae-technologies-succeeds-with-commercial-fusion-then-a-fusion-rocket-will-follow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/if-tae-technologies-succeeds-with-commercial-fusion-then-a-fusion-rocket-will-follow","title":{"rendered":"If TAE Technologies Succeeds With Commercial Fusion Then a Fusion Rocket Will Follow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/if-tae-technologies-succeeds-with-commercial-fusion-then-a-fusion-rocket-will-follow2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TAE Technologies has also looked at building a nuclear fusion rocket. Nextbigfuture had covered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2019\/01\/ceo-of-tae-technologies-says-they-will-reach-commercial-fusion-by-2024.html\" target=\"_blank\">TAE Technologies recent announcement that they will have a commercial nuclear fusion rocket<\/a> by 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/aip.scitation.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1063\/1.1649593\" target=\"_blank\">AIP Conference Proceedings 2004 \u2013 Colliding Beam Fusion Reactor Space Propulsion System<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Colliding Beam Fusion Reactor (CBFR( requires approximately 50 MW of injected power for steady-state operation. The H-B11 CBFR would generate approximately 77 MW of nuclear (particle) power, half of which is recovered in the direct-energy converter with 90% e\ufb03ciency. An additional 11.5 MW are needed to sustain the reactor which is provided by the thermo-electric converter and Brayton-heat engine. The principal source of heat in the CBFR-SPS is due to Bremstrahlung radiation. The thermo-electric converter recovers approximately 20% of the radiation, or 4.6 MW, transferring approximately 18.2 MW to the closed-cycle, Brayton-heat engine.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2019\/01\/if-tae-technologies-succeeds-with-commercial-fusion-then-a-fusion-rocket-will-follow.html\/amp?__twitter_impression=true\">https:\/\/www.nextbigfuture.com\/2019\/01\/if-tae-technologies-su...ssion=true<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAE Technologies has also looked at building a nuclear fusion rocket. Nextbigfuture had covered TAE Technologies recent announcement that they will have a commercial nuclear fusion rocket by 2023. The AIP Conference Proceedings 2004 \u2013 Colliding Beam Fusion Reactor Space Propulsion System The Colliding Beam Fusion Reactor (CBFR( requires approximately 50 MW of injected power [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}