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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.
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 ...
[8] [9] However, the ITER experience suggests that development of a multi-billion US dollar tokamak-based technology innovation cycle able to develop fusion power stations that can compete with non-fusion energy technologies is likely to encounter the "valley of death" problem in venture capital, i.e., insufficient investment to go beyond ...
China is a member of the ITER consortium, and EAST is a testbed for ITER technologies. [2] EAST was designed to test: Superconducting Niobium-titanium poloidal field magnets, making it the first tokamak with superconducting toroidal and poloidal magnets; Non-inductive current drive; Pulses of up to 102 seconds with 0.5 MA plasma current
It has since been reproduced in all major toroidal confinement devices, and is foreseen to be the standard operational scenario of ITER. In H-mode, the change in confinement is the most apparent at the edge of the plasma where the pressure gradient increases rapidly due to the increase in edge density, leading to the formation of a pedestal ...
The ITER project encountered management shortcomings, cost overruns and delays and a sharply critical 2013 audit, leaked to Raffi Katchadourian at The New Yorker, called for urgent reform. [51] Coblentz was hired by the new ITER Director-General, Bernard Bigot, as part of a senior management team brought in to get the project back on track ...
On 17 August 2005, PM Sayeed, then India's power minister informed the Rajya Sabha about India's claim to join ITER. [2] A team from ITER, France visited the SST-1 mission control housed in Institute for Plasma Research to see the advances Indian scientists had made. Finally on 6 December 2005, India was officially accepted as a full partner of ...
KSTAR is one of the first research tokamaks in the world to feature fully superconducting magnets, which again will be of great relevance to ITER as this will also use superconducting magnets. The KSTAR magnet system consists of 16 niobium – tin direct current toroidal field magnets, 10 niobium – tin alternating current poloidal field ...