It is an experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor that is being built next to the cadarache facility in saint paul lès durance in provence southern france. Iter originally the international thermonuclear experimental reactor is an international nuclear fusion research and engineering megaproject which will be the world s largest magnetic confinement plasma physics experiment. The st40 reactor and future reactors planned by tokamak energy use a compact spherical tokamak design with an almost round vacuum chamber instead of the wider donut shape.
Road to nuclear fusion. Tftr was designed with the explicit goal of reaching scientific breakeven the point where the heat being released from the fusion reactions in the plasma is equal or greater than the heating being supplied to the plasma by external. The tokamak fusion test reactor tftr was an experimental tokamak built at princeton plasma physics laboratory pppl circa 1980 and entering service in 1982.
A tokamak like the huge one that will reach 200 million celsius in china next year is a nuclear fusion plasma reactor where extremely hot charged plasma spins and generates virtually limitless. New tools aim to fix the chirping phenomenon found in tokamak reactors. Fusion has an efficiency problem but this science may solve it.
The fusion reactor has millions of individual parts that will eventually form the world s largest tokamak a plasma reactor where extremely hot charged plasma creates the conditions necessary for. With tens of billions of dollars on the line this experimental tokamak fusion reactor a nuclear fusion plasma reactor where extremely hot charged plasma spins and generates virtually limitless. 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.
Inside a tokamak the energy produced through the fusion of atoms is absorbed as heat in the walls of the vessel. The tokamak is an experimental machine designed to harness the energy of fusion. The experimental tokamak fusion reactor a nuclear fusion plasma reactor where extremely hot charged plasma spins and generates virtually limitless energy is one of a handful of extremely.
Tokamaks were initially conceptualized in the 1950s by. токамáк is a device which uses a powerful magnetic field to confine a hot plasma in the shape of a torus the tokamak is one of several types of magnetic confinement devices being developed to produce controlled thermonuclear fusion power as of 2016 it is the leading candidate for a practical fusion reactor.
