Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
ITER (initially the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, iter meaning "the way" or "the path" in Latin [2] [3] [4]) is an international nuclear fusion research and engineering megaproject aimed at creating energy through a fusion process similar to that of the Sun. It is being built next to the Cadarache facility in southern France.
A hugely ambitious project to replicate the energy of the sun is entering a critical phase, as scientists and technicians in southern France begin assembling giant parts of a nuclear fusion device ...
Launched in 2006 and based in southern France, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) had planned to test its first super-heated plasma by 2020 and achieve full fusion by 2023 ...
When it becomes operational, ITER is hoped to be the first large-scale fusion reactor to produce more energy than is used to initiate its fusion reactions. [3] [2] Other nuclear installations at Cadarache include the Tore Supra tokamak – a predecessor to ITER – and the Jules Horowitz Reactor, a 100-megawatt research reactor which is planned ...
With the possible exception of the EU and Japan, there are no plans for international collaboration as there was with ITER. [1] [2] Plans for DEMO-class reactors are intended to build upon the ITER experimental nuclear fusion reactor. [3] [4] The most well-known and documented DEMO-class reactor design is that of the European Union (EU).
ITER—the massive, proof-of-concept nuclear fusion reactor being built over the next ten years in the south of France—uses the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium. The names mean exactly ...
To deliver power to the fusion plasma in ITER, two heating neutral beam injectors will be installed. They are designed to provide the power of 17 MW each, through the 23 m beamlines, up to the four-meter diameter container: in order to deposit sufficient heating power in the plasma core instead of the plasma edges, the beam particle energy shall be about 1 MeV, thus increasing the neutral beam ...
The 14-year-old tokamak experiment is a building block for ITER, which will one day be the largest fusion reactor in the world. This Fusion Reactor Hit Temps 7 Times Hotter Than the Sun for 30 Seconds