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#ITER #Kernfusion #Nuclearfusion
Michael Claessens
ITER: The Giant Fusion Reactor
Bringing a Sun to e
Earth
Fast einen Monat nach der Bestellung endlich erhalten. Gut Ding braucht Weile :-)

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Wow-1g of deuterium-tritium produces, through #nuclearfusion, as much energy as the combustion of 8000 tonnes of oil!
Hear that, #Fridays4Future #Davos2020 !!

#nuclearfusion #tokamak #ITER
In 2003 the Tore Supra maintained a plasma pulse for 6min 30sec that produced 1billion Joules of energy-a world record among tokamaks that still stands today.

#nuclearfusion

#StephenHawking:
"Nuclear fusion would become a practical power source, and would provide us with an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming."

#nuclearfusion
#iter
@M_Claessens
*ITER:The Giant Fusion Reactor*
*Bringing a Sun to Earth*
⬇️
However, as delays accumulate so fusion opponents cannot resist repeating the well-known joke:
"Fusion energy is 30 years away, always has been and always will be."
🙂

@M_Claessens #ITER will be the first fusion reactor in the world to be controlled by a nuclear regulator, in this case ASN (French nuclear regulator), since neither #JET in the #UnitedKingdom nor #TFTR in the #USA are considered "nuclear" installations despite also operating with tritium.

@M_Claessens #nuclearfusion
#ITER-The Giant Fusion Reactor
12 universities and schools of engineering have combined their resources to propose a master´s degree in fusion science to promote scientific training in the field of fusion.

@M_Claessens #ITER - The Giant Fusion Reactor
ITER has a significant advantage over #JET since it uses superconducting magnets, which significantly reduce electricity consumption.

@M_Claessens #ITER: The Giant Fusion Reactor
#Russia
Wow!
In the #fusion world one project stands out as being somewhat different from all others: it is the Russian "DEMO" (T-15MD), which is planned to be a "hybrid" machine combining the principles of both fusion and fission

#Stellarator #Tokamak #ITER #Wendelstein7X
Even though they are intrinsically more complex than tokamaks (optimizing the design was impossible before the advent of #supercomputers), stellarators have the advantage of being more reliable and stable in operation.

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"The great thing about #ITER is that when it does turn on, it will finally bring nuclear fusion out of the land of the mythical and into the forefront of humanity´s interest, where it should be

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The world is covered in scars from the petty scratching of men, but ITER is something we should be truly proud of."
Richard Dinan

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