The Japanese are trying to curb the thermonuclear reaction by launching the world's largest tokamak

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Japan launched a new fusion reactor JT-60SA. It is designed to study the physics of fusion energy and support the international ITER project. Today it is the largest and so far the most advanced reactor in the world, which should help the industry study the physical processes that occur during the release of thermonuclear energy.

As experts explain, the JT-60SA reactor was rebuilt on the site of the old JT-60 reactor. It became larger, and the magnets were replaced with superconducting ones. This will allow it to contain plasma in the largest volume of the working area in the world today - 135 m3.



It took the Japanese 15 years to build a new reactor. Although it was originally supposed to be launched in 2016. However, after the Tohoku earthquake, the system had to be rebuilt almost from scratch. Additionally, during testing in 2021, one of the superconducting magnetic coils shorted, damaging electrical connections and causing a helium leak.

It is already known that the new JT-60SA reactor has received its first plasma. However, engineers still prefer not to disclose its parameters. It is emphasized that if ideal parameters are achieved, the plasma temperature should reach 200 million °C. Experts assure that in this state the JT-60SA reactor will have to maintain operation for 100 seconds.
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  1. zzdimk
    zzdimk
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    6 November 2023 13: 02
    I have only one question: if a thermonuclear reaction occurs in a clearly and always limited circuit, then how can something useful be extracted from it? In addition to new data, of course.
  2. Flight
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    6 November 2023 16: 01
    That's who, and the Japanese know a lot about Zen. Those who disassembled Japanese cassette players understood what art is in electronics. So, if the Americans and the “Carthaginians” don’t interfere with them, they will make a masterpiece out of this reaction.
  3. Alexander
    Alexander
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    6 November 2023 17: 05
    Fusion energy is a myth and a dead end. The investments are enormous, the exhaust is zero. The prospects are vague.
  4. strange guest
    strange guest
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    6 November 2023 17: 24
    You don’t have to worry about it for about 30 years - before then it won’t be created, suitable for industrial energy production, but it will be fueled with oil and coal, since the planet has it stored for at least 400 years.
  5. prior
    prior
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    7 November 2023 10: 03
    East is a delicate matter.
    It seems to me that under the guise of developing nuclear energy, the Japanese are creating their own nuclear bomb.
    The honesty and peacefulness of the Japanese are known throughout the world; Pearl Harbor and biological experiments in Manchuria alone are worth it.
    1. strange guest
      strange guest
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      7 November 2023 17: 34
      Which, in principle, would be both logical and justified. Living in a multipolar world, only nuclear weapons will provide at least some guarantees of sovereignty and independence.
  6. vbgfv
    vbgfv
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    4 December 2023 07: 22
    As I understand it, then the heat released during the reaction will have to be removed, the steam heated and a turbine with a generator installed!!! remove multiple degrees)