Plasma record thermonuclear reactor set

France reaches a new milestone in producing lymphadenopathy when maintaining a plasma reaction for more than 22 minutes. This record achievement takes place in the Tokamak West reactor operated by the French Nuclear Energy and Renewable Energy Committee (CEA). CEA’s Tokamak West oven holds a plasma in 1,337 seconds, surpassing China’s 1,066 seconds record, Interesting Engineering On February 19 reported.

“This leap of prove our understanding of plasma and technology controls them for a longer time is increasingly ripe, bringing the hope that can stabilize the plasma lymphadenopathy for a big time in the machines. Like Iter (international nuclear thermal test reactor), “CEA said.

For equipment such as Iter, which must maintain a thermonuclear plasma for a few minutes, the long -term milestone as above marks an important milestone. According to CEA, the ultimate goal is to control the plasma less stable while ensuring any part of exposure to it can withstand radiation without damage or pollution.

West, a CEA base, is the crystallization of decades in Plasma research in Tokamak furnace. The facility attracts scientists around the globe, the user of superconducting rolls and its active cooling parts for prolonged plasma experiments. West is part of international efforts, including many projects such as Japan’s JT-60SA, China’s East, Korea’s KSTAR, and JOINT European Torus (JET) in the UK. The team in CEA also contributed to the Iter project, the world’s leading thermonuclear initiative.

The new result allows West in particular and the scientific community in France in general to lead the use of Iter in the future, according to Anne-Isabelle Etienvre, basic research director in CEA. The lymphadenopathy reaction towards control of the plasma, provides high efficiency of energy with a minimum fuel and does not produce a long -term radioactive substance. Of the many thermonuclear techniques, the lymph node reaction by detention is the most advanced type. This method keeps the plasma in the ultimate chamber thanks to the strong magnetic field, heating it until the hydrogen nucleus is consolidated. Jet used to produce 15 MW of thermosoma for a few seconds.

Lymphoma energy is based on nuclear reactions, which can be combined with fission technology, especially in neutron -related applications. However, the production of large -scale lymphadenopathy energy faces many great challenges. Requirements for infrastructure, technical obstacles have not been solved and economic feasibility means that the thermonuclear reaction has not contributed significantly to the goal of not discharging carbon in 2050. According to the expert group in CEA, Overcoming those barriers is the most important thing to turn the potential to become a sustainable source of energy of the thermonuclear reaction into reality.

The West team will enhance efforts in the next few months not only to achieve the time to maintain the plasma up to several hours but also heat the plasma to a higher temperature.