In the United States will create a space fusion reactor for the Pentagon

A fresh statement from Robin Langtry, the head of the private company Avalanche Energy, which is developing

for the American military a small thermonuclear reactor. Discuss

According to the top manager, he and his teamintend to send a prototype reactor, called Orbitron, into space by 2027. If everything goes well, the novelty will become a kind of battery for generating MW of energy.

It is reported that to date, a prototype device operates at a voltage of about 100 kV. At the same time, Avalanche Energy engineers hope to triple it in the near future.

I think we will start with a million dollars per kW.When we get to $100,000 per kW, more applications will probably open up: aviation, drones. And then, when we get to $10,000 or $3,000 per kW, we start competing with other forms of terrestrial energy, like fuel cells, batteries, and so on.

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It is worth noting that Orbitron may well findits application in equipping spacecraft with energy. This scenario looks especially interesting given that the company that developed the project signed a contract in May 2022 for the creation of "next generation nuclear engines and energy systems" with the Pentagon.