For magnetic fusion energy to fuel future power plants, scientists must find ways to control the interactions that take place between the volatile edge of the plasma and the walls that surround it in fusion facilities.
The goal
for magnetic fusion is to generate roughly 10 times as much energy as is needed to contain the plasma.
Not exact matches
Avalanche boron
fusion by laser picosecond block ignition with
magnetic trapping
for clean and economic reactor
Although the ions are not the most numerous constituents in the atmosphere the electro -
magnetic interactions between ions and aerosols compensate
for the scarcity and make
fusion between ions and aerosols much more likely.
In a recent paper published in EPJ H, Fritz Wagner from the Max Planck Institute
for Plasma Physics in Germany, gives a historical perspective outlining how our gradual understanding of improved confinement regimes
for what are referred to as toroidal
fusion plasmas — confined in a donut shape using strong
magnetic fields — have developed since the 1980s.
It is an experimental
fusion machine based on the «tokamak» concept — a toroidal (doughnut - shaped)
magnetic configuration that is used to create and maintain the conditions
for controlled
fusion reactions.
On the other hand, in
magnetic field confinement
fusion plasma intended
for a
fusion reactor, which research is being conducted at the National Institute
for Fusion Science, development of high precision electron density measurements is becoming an important research topic.
Since the operating temperature
for fusion is in the hundreds of millions degrees Celsius, hotter than any known material can withstand, engineers found they could contain a plasma — a neutral electrically conductive, high - energy state of matter — at these temperatures using
magnetic fields.
Eventually, studying 3 - D knotted
magnetic fields like those potentially present in ball lightning might help scientists devise better ways to control plasmas within future
fusion reactors
for generating power, the researchers suggest.
Aiming
for the achievement of
fusion energy, research on confining a high temperature, high density plasma in a
magnetic field is being conducted around the world.
Inside ITER's enormous, doughnut - shaped reactor walls,
magnetic fields, electric currents, microwaves, and particle beams will heat a deuterium - tritium plasma to
fusion temperatures
for about 20 minutes.
Each of these spinning
magnetic storms is the size of Europe, and together they may be pumping enough energy into the solar atmosphere to heat it to millions of degrees — a power that leads one scientist to suggest we could mimic these solar tornadoes on Earth in the quest
for nuclear
fusion power.
The latest advancement in prostate cancer detection is
magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound
fusion - guided biopsy, which offers benefits
for both patient and physician.
American researchers have shown that prospective
magnetic fusion power systems would pose a much lower risk of being used
for the production of weapon — usable materials than nuclear fission reactors and their associated fuel cycle.
PPPL has used such diagnostic systems, called X-ray crystal spectrometers,
for decades to study the data from the laboratory's
magnetic fusion research.
Researchers designed an effective algorithm
for the National Spherical Torus Experiment - Upgrade, a
magnetic fusion reactor at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
The Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and managed by Princeton University, is located at 100 Stellarator Road off Campus Drive on Princeton University's Forrestal Campus in Plainsboro, N.J. PPPL researchers collaborate with researchers around the globe in the field of plasma science, the study of ultra-hot, charged gases, to develop practical solutions
for the creation of
magnetic fusion energy as an energy source
for the world.
PPPL is the nation's leading center
for the exploration of plasma science and
magnetic fusion energy.
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Unlike inertial systems,
magnetic systems have reached the temperature necessary
for fusion, but only through external heating devices that themselves use so much energy that you get no net energy out while they are on.
There are two approaches to
fusion energy, inertial confinement (the National Ignition Facility or NIF at Lawrence Livermore National Lab,
for example) and
magnetic confinement (the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor or ITER,
for example).
This focus in
magnetic fusion has driven the development of a new scientific field, plasma physics, with huge benefits
for science in general — from understanding cosmic plasmas to employing these hot, ionized gases
for computer chip manufacturing.
Two major
fusion research reactors are being built over the next decade — the international ITER
magnetic confinement reactor (
for $ 5 to 10 billion) and the US National Ignition Facility (NIF — $ 2 to 5 billion) to study «inertial confinement».
Both inertial and
magnetic fusion approaches can be modified
for power production.