Design Blueprint: A Magnetised Liner Inertial Fusion Power Plant: Premagnetised Fuel, Liner Gain and Pulsed-Power Recirculation

Design blueprint derived from the source paper (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.24159664): This paper presents a complete, computed design study of a fusion power plant based on a magnetised liner inertial fusion chamber: a pulsed-power chamber in which a solid cylindrical liner, renewed each shot, implodes onto premagnetised fuel gas. The fuel is deuterium tritium, releasing 17.6 MeV per reaction, of which 14.1 MeV leaves with the neutron and 3.5 MeV stays with the alpha particle. Heating is by axial pulsed current imploding a cylindrical metal liner onto premagnetised, laser-preheated deuterium tritium gas, and the blanket concept is replaceable lithium-bearing liner cartridges with a permanent outer breeding structure. Sizing follows from a zero-dimensional energy balance evaluated in the accompanying computation: target gain 11.67, time-averaged fusion power 168 MW, driver electrical demand 80 MW, gross electric output 87.7 MW and net electric output -6.705 MW. The minimum gain for electrical break-even at the stated driver efficiency is 11.31. Each shot releases 210 MJ of fusion energy from 18 MJ of driver energy delivered to the target, repeated at 0.8 Hz. The plant verdict on the stated assumptions is net negative. Where a quantity depends on an assumption that experiments have not yet demonstrated at the required value, that dependence is stated numerically so that the design can be re-scored as measurements improve. This study is simulated and computed from stated assumptions; it is not a measurement, and no part of the plant has been built. SIMULATED, NOT MEASURED. Status: DESIGN BLUEPRINT — SIMULATED, NOT MEASURED — NOT BUILT. All numbers are simulated values from the source paper's computation, deposited with this blueprint as compute.py and results.json. AI-use disclosure: Dave, an AI research system, assisted with the computation and drafting under the author's direction; author of record William Alexander Aldred.