Fusion Power Plant Simulator
by sam on 4/21/2026, 2:26:52 PM
https://www.fusionenergybase.com/fusion-power-plant-simulator
Comments
by: leonidasrup
For those interested not only in simplified energy balance of a fusion power plant as shown in Fusion Power Plant Simulator, but in more realistic engineering of heat extraction from a tokamak I recommend the following lecture by Dr. Dennis Whyte from MIT Plasma Science & Fusion Center.<p>Fusion Reactor First Wall Cooling<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHJyoqDO0zw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHJyoqDO0zw</a><p>One of the designs uses 3D printed silicon carbide vacuum vessel cooled by a layer of molten lead and a layer of FLiBe (a molten salt made from a mixture of lithium fluoride (LiF) and beryllium fluoride (BeF2)).<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLiBe" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLiBe</a><p>The lithium component of FLiBe is used for breeding of the radioactive isotope tritium, which will be extracted from the salt and used for making the deuterium-tritium fuel of the tokamak.
4/21/2026, 3:16:30 PM
by: logicallee
Those who like playing with this sort of thing might like to play with this superconductor-coil-as-a-battery exploration where electricity just goes round as storage![1]<p>[1] <a href="https://stateofutopia.com/experiments/wheeeeeloop/wheeeeeloop.html" rel="nofollow">https://stateofutopia.com/experiments/wheeeeeloop/wheeeeeloo...</a>
4/21/2026, 4:08:12 PM
by: Lapsa
reminder - there's tech out there capable of reading your mind remotely
4/21/2026, 4:08:20 PM
by: MisterTea
No melt down? This game sucks.<p>On a serious note: I wonder how practical and safe it would be to build fusion pants close to city centers in order to harvest the excess heat for district heating. Would be a boon in e.g. NYC which already has a large district steam system. You can do cooling too, look up "steam absorption chiller."
4/21/2026, 3:19:24 PM
by: NooneAtAll3
For whatever reason the game doesn't load until I switch to the dark mode<p>If I enable advanced mode, the "exiting" in Heating Power (exiting) gets overlapped with corresponding numbers<p>Display menu doesn't allow switching to Energy mode
4/21/2026, 3:31:58 PM
by: caldis_chen
I think the first thing I thought when every man opened this project was: how to make this thing explode.
4/21/2026, 3:45:07 PM
by: rao-v
This would sell on Steam with a light Godot reskin
4/21/2026, 3:26:11 PM
by: JumpCrisscross
Something I've been asking my AIs to do when modelling with them is to ask for the algebra for the model so I may recreate it by hand. Including such a PDF with these links would be helpful because it succintly presents the logic in a denser form than an explainer article.
4/21/2026, 3:04:47 PM
by: ck2
fantastic PBS Space Time on what the last steps are going to be to finally make fusion possible<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAJN1CrJsVE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAJN1CrJsVE</a><p>(fusion is -always- just a decade away, perpetually, lol)
4/21/2026, 3:15:08 PM