Fusion reactor faces cost hike

The First Fusion Reactor: Iter

28 I n practical terms, the project’s goal is to construct and operate a tokamak experiment which can confine a deuterium-tritium plasma in which the α-particle heating dominates all other forms of plasma heating. Formally, the primary mission of the ITER project is to demonstrate sustainment of a DT plasma producing ~500 MW of fusion power for durations of 300 500 s with a ratio of fusion outp...

Conferences and Symposia Fusion Reactor Design Iv

The International Atomic Energy Agency convened, in the framework of its Fusion Technology and Engineering Programme, the 4th Technical Committee and Workshop on Fusion Reactor Design and Technology at Yalta, USSR, from 26 May — 6 June 1986. This report contains all summaries of sessions that were organized during the workshop. The papers presented at the meeting are being published by the Agen...

Concept of Multi-function Fusion Reactor

To really use the fusion energy and make the fusion energy as a main energy in the world could need more than 50 years. The construction of ITER starts the real course to realize the peaceful use of the fusion energy. It means the technologies developed in the world are feasible to built fusion facilities or reactors with fusion core plasmas. Based on the technologies nowadays, a concept of mul...

Choice of coils for a fusion reactor.

In a fusion reactor a hot plasma of deuterium and tritium is confined by a strong magnetic field to produce helium ions and release energetic neutrons. The 3D geometry of a stellarator provides configurations for such a device that reduce net toroidal current that might lead to disruptions. We construct smooth coils generating an external magnetic field designed to prevent the plasma from deter...

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