Launch of thermonuclear reactor in Russia announced
The T-15MD hybrid fusion facility, built by the Kurchatov Institute Research Center, will begin to operate by the end of 2020. Relevant information was published in the periodical "Questions of Atomic Science and equipment". Series: Thermonuclear Fusion. ”
Recall that Russia is one of the participants in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project. The goal of research by domestic scientists in the framework of the program will be to find solutions to such problems as: stationary generation of non-induction current, heating and holding hot plasma, controlling processes on the first wall and in the divertor, as well as studying the mechanism of formation and maintenance of transport barriers.
The aforementioned article says that the T-15MD tokamak, created on the basis of the T-15 (operated until 1995), which at one time became one of the first thermonuclear reactors in the world, is called the unique ITER installation, which will operate in Russia over the next 10 -15 years.
Also, it is worth recalling that the main goal of the ITER project is to thoroughly study fusion technologies with their subsequent use exclusively for peaceful purposes. The complex of necessary facilities will be erected in the south of France and in total will occupy an area of 18 hectares.
The importance of this experiment is difficult to overestimate. Indeed, if researchers are able to find a way to keep the heated plasma in a magnetic trap, and at the same time spend less energy on the magnets themselves, then, ultimately, humanity will receive a practically inexhaustible source of renewable energy.
Recall that Russia is one of the participants in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project. The goal of research by domestic scientists in the framework of the program will be to find solutions to such problems as: stationary generation of non-induction current, heating and holding hot plasma, controlling processes on the first wall and in the divertor, as well as studying the mechanism of formation and maintenance of transport barriers.
The aforementioned article says that the T-15MD tokamak, created on the basis of the T-15 (operated until 1995), which at one time became one of the first thermonuclear reactors in the world, is called the unique ITER installation, which will operate in Russia over the next 10 -15 years.
Also, it is worth recalling that the main goal of the ITER project is to thoroughly study fusion technologies with their subsequent use exclusively for peaceful purposes. The complex of necessary facilities will be erected in the south of France and in total will occupy an area of 18 hectares.
The importance of this experiment is difficult to overestimate. Indeed, if researchers are able to find a way to keep the heated plasma in a magnetic trap, and at the same time spend less energy on the magnets themselves, then, ultimately, humanity will receive a practically inexhaustible source of renewable energy.
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