Just like a conventional power plant, a fusion power plant will use this heat to produce steam and then electricity by way of turbines and generators. This article was most recently revised and updated by william l. See more ideas about future energy, nuclear energy and nuclear physics. From use cases of the joint european torus towards. The tokamak is an experimental machine designed to harness the energy of fusion. The foundations of iters doughnutshaped tokamak chamber take shape in april 2016. Instead, use feature flags to roll out to a small percentage of users to reduce risk and fail safer. Tokamak definition is a toroidal device for producing controlled nuclear fusion that involves the confining and heating of a gaseous plasma by means of an electric current and magnetic field. Tokamak research has made rapid progress in terms of plasma confinement parameters and temperatures and it is a strong candidate for magnetic. The impetus to establish iter in 2007 came from discussions at iaea forums that covered several the iter tokamak will be nearly 30 metres tall, and weigh 23,000 tonnes.
The iter tokamak is made up of an estimated one million parts. Suvorov, on measurements of electron temperature profile by cyclotron emission in iter tokamak, ibid. The iter tokamak the iter machine is a tokamak, the russian acronym for toroidal chamber, magnetic coils. It produces the highest plasma temperatures, densities, and confinement durations of any confinement device. More than 200 tokamaks around the world have paved the way to the iter experiment. Us advised to stick with troubled fusion reactor iter. Currently the largest tokamak reactor, iter which is an acronym for international thermonuclear experimental reactor, is being constructed in cadarache, france. As plasma temperature rises, the plasma resistivity decreases as te32 and the role played by the ohmic. A consortium of nationschina, the 28 states of the european union. The very small man dressed in blue bottom left gives some idea of the machines scale. Introduction the need for external heating power in addition to the ohmic heating power resulting from the tokamak plasma current has been recognized since the early days of tokamak research. The project was originally due to be completed in 10.
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