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Friday, November 30, 2012

New type of heating for ITER


In a tokamak, blanket modules coat the inside of the chamber and directly face the hot plasma. In ITER, certain modules will be used to test tritium breeding concepts. Photo: Tore Supra Tokamak, CEA Cadarache. (Click to view larger version...)(Phys.org)—Tests for the heating that is to bring the plasma of the ITER international fusion test reactor to a temperature of many million degrees can go ahead from today: After three years of construction, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) at Garching bei München has officially commissioned the ELISE test rig – the world's largest device of its kind and part of a four-million euro research contract of the "Fusion for Energy" European ITER Agency. Corepiece of the device is an innovative high-frequency ion source developed at IPP. On the ELISE test rig it will now be adapted to the high requirements of ITER.
ITER (originally an acronym of International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) is an international nuclear fusion research and engineering project, which is currently building the world's largest and most advanced experimental tokamak nuclear fusion reactor at the Cadarache facility in the south of France.
More info here: www.iter.org
Read more articles here: ITER

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