Sentences with phrase «reactor walls»

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.

The fundamental challenge to replicating and sustaining it on earth is containment of the plasma: how can you get it that hot without vaporizing the reactor walls and having that foreign matter snuff the sunburst like rain on a campfire?

Hot plasma in fusion reactions bites pieces from the reactor walls, creating metallic dust.

Electrons with extremely high energy can suddenly accelerate to speeds so high that they destroy the reactor wall.

The measurements of these lost fast ions also allow for the conclusive identification of the path the particles took en route to the detector, thereby determining which waves (amongst a veritable sea of many different waves) the particles interacted with along their way to the reactor wall.

But as the neutrons smash through the reactor walls, they make them brittle and radioactive.

Although the smallest of the three major US facilities, C - Mod specializes in studying the boundary between the plasma and its reactor walls — one of the «tier 1» research initiatives identified in the report.

When used on tungsten surfaces in fusion devices, lithium can reduce periodic instabilities in plasma that can damage the reactor walls, scientists have found.

The edge is also the region where the plasma must be cooled to lower temperature so it doesn't damage the reactor walls.