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Homework Statement:: French Fusion Reactor Relevant Equations:: F=ma Hey anyone here working on the French Fusion reactor? Heard about it over the radio. ITER just been reading the annual reports from CERN. Kind of a fun read if you haven’t read it yet.

There's an MIT lecture on youtube where they talk about novel high temperature super conductors and how it will vastly benefit fusion. He claims that these higher temperature super conductors can generate a stronger magnetic field with just liquid nitrogen. They also claim that keeping the...

https://phys.org/news/2019-01-scientists-stabilizes-fusion-plasmas.html By applying more RF power to the unstable 'bubbles' that form in the plasmas.

I remember reading that in addition to the ITER, that they're also building a facility to study the intense neutron flux that is expected from the reactor in order to study how to better protect materials from the flux. Anyone remember the name of the facility? I'm having trouble finding it.

I've been reading some about the ITER project, tokamaks, and other approaches to plasma containment. Why can't ion trapping approaches such as an orbitrap be used for fusion plasma containment?

Homework Statement the radius from the symmetry to center of the plasma is about 6.2 metres and the minor radius is 2 metres Homework Equations Can you guys help me to make the plasma geometry for MCNP? The Attempt at a Solution the softcode of plasma geometry

I was curious about why the plasma inside a modern fusion reactor (ITER, DIII-D) is modeled with a D-shaped cross section. From what I've read, it is more stable that way, but WHY is it more stable than a similar plasma flow with a circular cross-section? Thanks in advance (and sorry if I...

I was reading that the ITER will take advantage of the energetic neutron flux by using them and lithium 6 to breed tritium for more fuel, and to use multiple heat exchangers to grab their energy. And just to make sure that I'm reading it right, the main problem with the neutrons will be their...

ITER is the fusion reactor in southern France that hopefully will come online in 2018. According to wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITER The ITER fusion reactor itself has been designed to produce 500 megawatts of output power for 50 megawatts of input power. Does this mean that if...

Not sure if applicable here but I was doing some reading on ITER the fusion reactor. I have read about "Test Blanket Modules" being designed by both China and the United States. I understand that these blanket modules will be used to surround the reactor however I was wondering if these test...

I've seen their job listings website. But really what are the intangibles that would help someone work at this magnificant place?

I have some problems comprehending what the objective of ITER is. I'll explain: The stated objective is "a large-scale scientific experiment that aims to demonstrate that it is possible to produce commercial energy from fusion". However; 1) ITER will never produce any usable energy, so...

If the engineering Q is greater than 1.1 or so, does that mean the fusion problem has been theoretically solved?

I am hopeful that the new large ITER tokamak style fusion reactor will be successful. According to wikipedia: The ITER fusion reactor itself has been designed to produce 500 MW of output power for 50 MW of input power, or ten times the amount of energy put in. Hereby the machine is...

I got an opportunity to attend part of the World Energy Congress (going on presently), and found it interesting to find that among the presentation booths for major energy suppliers (including major fortune 500 oil companies, fission reactor manufacturers, grid services, solar, wind etc. and...

As the cost of ITER is now estimated at 16G€, I want to point out that such a tokamak is completely useless, because it requires unavailable tritium. That is: - Tritium does not exist naturally, because its life is about 20 years and it isn't produced on Earth by any process; "in the ocean"...

I've been looking on the internet and can't find the answer to this question. I'd like to know if it is generating current purely via the traditional inductive method, or if they plan to use any non-inductive method. I suspect the former but I need to know for certain. And could anyone...

I am still working on my mechanical engineering degree and I am wondering what advice someone who is familiar with the program could give me regarding a future in the project. I am thinking about joining the Navy nuclear engineering program if I can get accepted. I think that five years hands...

I find it surprising that whilst the average person will know about CERN, due to its heavy coverage in the news and media, only very few people will have heard of ITER. This seems strange because ITER will probably have a much greater effect upon the average person's life than anything that may...

Ok, all you people in the know, what's the real low-down on ITER and the possibility of fusion power reactors this century? If you believe wikipedia, and ITER themselves, the theory behind efficient fusion power generation is sound and the problems that exist are engineering problems (such...

http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn10633&feedId=online-news_rss20 Well, it looks like everybody decided to do it! I didn't think that would happen.

http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2005/05/02/afx1991335.html According to the above link, ITER "is not expected to be operational before 2050". Is this true? I had thought the time that would be required to build it would be less than twenty years even from a pessmistic viewpoint. If it...

Was just reading through some articles on the ITER site, very interesting. There's a bit too many for me to sift through here at work but was wondering if someone might have an answer to my question. How is energy extracted from the Tokamak and how will it produce electricity? Will energy...