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Bozo River Fusion Facility nears Completion
First Commercial Reactor being built by KALNAPECO to offer clean Power to Ananto
Bozo River Fusion Center, Ananto
October 8, 5093


Heavy Water Plant located adjacent to Fusion Center to create D2O  and lithium from pumped Sea Water

The Bozo River Fusion Facility is nearing completion, and will begin generating energy in early December, KALNAPECO says.

"We have completed the main reactor," said BRFF spokesman Erik Hanson, "which is capable of creating a net  of up to 2.85 Gigawatts, or enough power to light nearly one million households.  The clean, pollution free power generated at this one facility will light the entire North Coast of Ananto, from here in Bozo River to Dulnerstaad."  Hanson said another reactor will be built near Kaliburg to supply power to the Capital, and a third will be built in Dahriel, to supply the remainder of the Island.  "We are at an efficiency of 2.7, and as long as deuterium and lithium is supplied, the reactor is self powering."

Hanson noted that these are the first, and likely most inefficient reactors to be built in the Republic.  "As we expand the operations to the mainland, we will continue to research in more power pinches, and methods of reducing power input to draw more power from the system.  Surpassing R=3.0 is possible within the next five years, and R=4 is even possible, at which point, one reactor will power nearly an entire District.  We are finding that the main challenge to even higher efficiency is pulse calibration, to ensure shear stabilized containment of even larger plasma cylinders than we are achieving now."  Research Continues at the experimental reactor, but a new experimental reactor will eventually need to be built, because the small size of the current reactor acts as a limiting factor in the amount of plasma which can be contained

The Main Plasma Injector at the Bozo River Fusion Facility creates a jet of superheated gas that is electrified and fuses atoms of Deuterium and Tritium into Helium

The funding for the project has been shifted entirely to KALNAPECO, for the time being.  "I think the Government imagined a holding company for investment," said Hanson, "but private sector investors remained skittish about buying in to the National Fusion Project, given the full nationalization of the energy industry in Kalistan's Law.  So last year, the decision was made to shift the entire project back to KALNAPECO, and slowly move KALNAPECO's energy generation assets toward fusion."  Hanson noted that as Ananto Fusion plants come online within the next three years, oil and LNG plants will eventually be shuttered and dismantled.  "The dismantling project, which will begin five years after Ananto moves to 100 percent fusion power, will be overseen by the NSP, and all plant employees will be retrained for other jobs in the company."

KALNAPECO says they hope to have the fusion infrastructure, including heavy water plants in Vrassa, Odufaray and Suldanor, completed across the Republic within 15 years, at which point, all of Kalistan's electric will be provided by clean fusion.  "After that point, KALNAPECO will operate primarily for export, and our charter will need to be significantly revised, though there will remain a significantly reduced market for petroleum products in Kalistan, primarily in plastics, tars, and asphalts.  But we will see our domestic utilization reduced from 23% of capacity to something around 6-7% of capacity."

Whatever happens to the Kalistani National Petroleum Company in the future, the present is filled with three tiny, artificial stars to begin producing unlimited, safe, and virtually pristine energy for the people of Ananto, and then for the rest of the Republic.