[Suggestion] Control the power of the sun, or: Fusion reactors!

First: I KNOW that fusion reactors were discussed and denied, but all proposals were very bad thought stuff, like 2 sentences or less. Pls read it and think about it. Don just say no before taking a look.

I wanted to make a new Suggestion, a new high end reactor for energy needs not even a nuclear reactor can support. The Fusion reactor! Capable of emitting TONS of energy at a not soo high price. The only big negative part, this thing is VERY expensive to build and needs 2 things already achieved:
A working Massfab
a working nuclear reactor/breeder.
You will soon see why. I do not Expect this thing to be like included in the next release or something like this, but I would definitely like to see it released some day.
I once read that you (Alb) wrote that you were thinking about a big collider thing. I don’t know if those plans died with the nuclear reactor consisting of multiple blocks or if it is still a valid option. If it is: This reactor may serve as a realistic way to make a “circle” of blocks.
The theoretical recipe of a reactor should look like this: (I will explain everything like the reactor is just one block big, if you would decide to make it a built circle variations would be great, like varying circle length for varying energy etc.)

To Build and maintain this new reactor we will need a few new items as well as new functionalities.

New Items:
Fuel Parts:
Heavy Water Cell
Uber Heavy Water Cell
Deuterium Cell
Tritium Cell
Fusion Fuel Cell
Lithium Dust
Lithium Ingot
Lithium Plating

Reactor Parts:
Reactor Control unit
Magnetic Mantle
Electronic Magnet
Uncurred Ceramic Plating
Fusion Reactor Plating

New functionalitys for Existing machines:
Nuclear reactor is able to breed heavy water cells => Uber heavy water cells (like isotope cells)
Electrolyzer will need a 3rd slot to input an empty cell which for each electrolyzed water cell will be 1/10 filled with heavy water (thats actually like they do it in RL but we are just much more effective... ).
Now how does that thing work?
First to the new recipes for stuff:
Reactor:
Electronic magnet:
CCC
III
CCC
C = Copper Cable
I = Adv Iron
Fusion Reactor Plating:
CCC
CAC = U
CCC

C = Carbon plate; A = Advanced Alloy; U = Uncured Ceramic Plating

Sending Uncured Ceramic Plating through a Furnace (preferrably an induction furnace (at 100% heat if programmable)) will create a Ceramic Plate, which can be used for heat shielding on a fusion reactor.

Magnetic Mantle:
MCM
RIR
MCM
M = Electronic Magnet C = Adv Circuit R = Fusion Reactor plating I = Iridium Plating
Control Unit:
FAF
AcLAc
FAF
F = Glass Fiber Cable A = Adv Machine Ac = Adv Circuit L = Lapotron Crystal
Fusion Core:
MMM
MCM
MMM
M = Magnetic Mantle C = control Unit
Lithium Dust:
Obsidian -> Macerator -> Obsidian Dust + Water -> Igneous Solution -> Electrolyzer -> Lithium Dust

Now that you can build yourself a brand new Fusion Reactor you may ask yourself, how the hell does it work? By now it’s just an expensive piece of metal and circuits… You do good asking:
To heat up the reactor (or to be more exactly the plasma) to the needed 150’000’000°K (And yes that is the real temperature you need :P) you will need a lot of power available. (I don’t know whats better to make: Like the teleporter taking energy from a near storage or loading the reactor itself)
The reactor will need 1M Eu to start the little sun inside your brand new reactor! HAYO!
Additionally you need 1 Fusion Fuel cell within the reactor and 1 Lithium Plating (optional), that is placed around the reactor (within GUI) to breed new Trithium. And an empty cell to take the newly bred Trithium. Now you hit an active redstone signal and off we go.

1 Run of the reactor will produce 20Meu Emitted as 2048eu/T that is over 450 seconds of a big POWER load. This reaction is unstoppable and will run through in one shot, if the power is needed or not.

After the fusion within the reactor stopped it will cool down and be ready again for a new run and as you guessed it will need to be heated again after every run! HAYO!
But how do I get my cool Fusion Fuel Cell?

First you need deuterium, which you can get as a residue of electrolyzed water. While electrolyzing water cells you will get 1/10 of a filled heavy water cell as residue.
You will need Tritium and Deuterium mixed 1:1 for the Fuel. To get that stuff initially, since you do not have a running reactor that is breeding your lithium to tritium you will need to breed that thing otherwise. And there comes your nuclear reactor to play.
The breeding of Deuterium (in the form of heavy water cells) => Tritium (in the form of uber heavy water cells) will work the same way as does the breeding of Isotop cells, but heavy water cells do not produce heat unlike Isotop cells.
Now that you got that Heavy or uber heavy water cell, you wont need it liquid as the water it is, but as a Gas, therefore you need to electrolyze it. (heavy water => deuterium, uber heavy water =>tritium)
You now mix 1 Tritium and 1 Deuterium Cell and get 1 Fusion Fuel Cell.

But how do I get lithium platings for easier breeding of tritium? Very easy stuff, you can make it totally realistic out of: Redstone/Iron dust/Tin Dust which gives you 1 Lithium dust which can be smolten into 1 Lithium ingot.
Lithium Platings:
LL
LL
L = Lithium Ingot.

And that is how you get that reactor running. I hope you like the idea at least a bit for the far future. (The whole reactor bases on the best scientific ideas to make a working fusion reactor, the reference for the reactor was this type of reactor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER for nice pictures go here: http://www.iter.org/mach). All numbers are just a shot in the blue a lot of balancing would be needed to implement it.

Oh and there is NO WAY to amplify a nuke with fusion fuel cells so that the devastation will be even bigger....

Thx to Irontyger for some good inputs.

thx for the comment. About the 2048 eu/t would be a great idea since it would cut the running time of the reactor down to aproximately the duration of the real test reactor they are building (400 seconds / Reactor Pulse).

could theoreticly be done, but aint realistic since you need to cool it down after a shot to vent the produced Helium...

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Btw: I included some changes (Plating/Lithium recipe) into my 1st post i hope this is okay with you.

Quote from Irontygre

I'm going to nitpick with you here a little.

You don't ever heat up a nuclear fusion reactor vessel (unless you want a toxic cloud of gaseous metallic products). You heat the PLASMA contained inside the magnetic containment field within the vessel. In order to do this, you have several stages:

Ignition: This can be done in many ways, usually it's done by bleeding a rarified gas into the vacuum vessel (the reactor chamber has to be brought to a complete vacuum) then using a massive inductive coil to run a current through the gas.
Heating: The now warm plasma (not yet achieved the 40 or so keV required) is then bombarded with intense RF waves and high energy neutral beams to come up to fusion temperature.
Fusion: Theoretically, with proper confinement, the plasma will now self-heat thanks to fusion alpha particles.

(I never wanted to heat the reactor vessel itself, i know the fact that no material will hold 150M°K)

Magnetic confinement fusion reactors don't use "cells" or "rods" like a nuclear fission reactor, putting the fuel into a cell and then playing around with reactor configs like our already existing IC2 reactor makes zero sense.

Never wanted to do it like this, just mix the fuel in the cell insert the cell into the reactor => fuel will be put in no playing with coolant as in the nuker planned.

In "real life," a commercial magnetic confinement reactor will be a continuous run device with D-T or D-D fuel pumped in, and thermalized alpha particles pumped out. Separating waste alphas from the reactor plasma is not hard to do, and the reactor doesn't have to shut down for that to happen.

Yes thats true, it could be continous theoretically but they plan on 400-1000second cycles (varying from reactor to reactor plan), and i liked the idea of a not continous system for such a huge amount of power. I needed some restrictions to not make it absolutly overpowered. For the fuel: DT Fusion is much more efficient thats why i have chosen this, you could include the option for DD fusion with the gain of tritium with less power output. (but thats a bit easy for the first tritium) and i wanted that you need to have a working nuclear reactor before being able to make a fusion reactor.

Reactor plating for a fusion reactor is different from reactor plates for a fission reactor. I feel like a different formula should be used accordingly. This would be far closer to (but not entirely accurate) a fusion reactor plate:

CCC
CAC = U
CCC

C = Carbon plate; A = Advanced Alloy; U = Uncured Ceramic Plating

Sending Uncured Ceramic Plating through a Furnace (preferrably an induction furnace at 100% heat) will create a Ceramic Plate, which can be used for heat shielding on a fusion reactor.

You mean this kind of reactor plating instead of nuke plating i used in the recipe? Good idea... i like this reactor to be fucking expensive. As it is much more complex than a fission reactor.

Finally, while it is possible to breed Tritium from Lithium, that's not the purpose of Lithium in a fusion reactor. Lithium is used (in advanced fusion experiments) as a regenerating liquid wall capable of heat-shielding any components that are directly exposed to plasma flow.

Gotta correct you there a bit: http://www.iter.org/mach/tritiumbreeding ( the supply of Tritium in the Earth's crust is limited, estimated currently at twenty kilos. A second source of Tritium fortunately exists: Tritium can be produced within the tokamak when neutrons escaping the plasma interact with a specific element—Lithium—contained in the Blanket. This concept of 'breeding' Tritium during the fusion reaction is an important one for the future needs of a large-scale fusion power plant.) since i took most of the model of the ITER reactor i took this too.

PS: Fusion reactors don't have enough energy contained inside their plasma to do anything beyond obliterating their internal carbon plating and damaging the reactor vessel from the subsequent outgassing. There's no solid or solid-like material in one to burn a hole in the ground with, and there's certainly not enough energy within the reactor chamber at any given point in time to create epic boom with water.

Absolutly true.

EDIT: Here's a better formula for obtaining lithium:

Obsidian -> Macerator -> Obsidian Dust + Water -> Igneous Solution -> Electrolyzer -> Lithium Dust

I like this idea of getting Lithium. far more than mine.

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Quote from Irontygre

My main issue with a "preheat" stage is that a) it's part of the actual reactor operation cycle, not a preheat stage, b) it takes only a few tenths of a second to heat the plasma (if even), and c) when the reaction shuts down, plasma heat is lost on the order of tenths of seconds again. There's really no realistic point in simulating heatup and cooldown.
Then again, I'm not entirely sure if you're suggesting simulating preheat and cooldown ... so take this criticism accordingly.

What i meant is not like a preheat of the reactor before starting, more like charging the internal power storage for the 1M eu shot to heat it up in no time. (like you said) cooldown wasnt planned as well, since i know the amount of fuel inside and the mass of the plasma is so less that, although the temperature is pretty high it doesent contain that much specific heat. And this is as well the point why a fusion reactor is on a very instable state while working. just a small misplaced fuel etc and there goes your plasma.

ITER is an experimental reactor, and therefore has shot-lengths that are finite. Everything that I have heard leads me to believe that the goal is for a commercial reactor to be a continuous run device. Now, if the fusion reactor in Minecraft is supposed to be an "experimental" class device, that's fine. But if it's supposed to be a "futuresight" commercial device, it really ought to be continuous.

Yep i planned it more like an experimental reactor.

Something else to consider to increase complexity and decrease "availability" of fusion is that neutron blankets have to be changed often on a fusion device (est. at once every 2 years for a commercial device). The blankets will be so radioactive that they will be unsafe to handle without significant protective equipment.

Would be a nice idea, like you have to take platings out and replace them with fresh ones. nice idea on how to make it not so easy once built.

I stand corrected on lithium breeder walls (I don't work on fusion reactor wall research, used to work on plasma core and core-edge interface research).

me neither, all i got is from reading stuff i found about the projects running. My place is more like the chemical research.

Also, you're more than welcome to take my suggestions and incorporate them in the OP. Tier 4 powerplants would be a cool addition.

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kentington, i love that addon and the interfsce is cool. definitly gonna check that out this evening.

before posting meaningless BS, pls take a second to get acquainted with actual research. and take a look at the iter project. thx