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Expansion of the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator fusion device at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald is entering a new stage with the final delivery of components for the divertor.

Date: Friday, 20 March 2020
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsexpansion-of-the-wendelstein-7-x-stellarator-underway-7830324

The Wendelstein 7-X stellarator-type fusion device at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. PHoto courtesy IPP. The next stage has begun of work to upgrade of the world’s largest stellarator-type fusion device at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald, Germany.

IPP said installation of new water-cooled inner cladding of the plasma vessel will make the Wendelstein 7-X facility suitable for higher heating power and longer plasma pulses.

The new cladding’s centrepiece, the so-called divertor, was manufactured by the institute’s Garching branch. It was delivered to Greifswald on 17 March and installation work will last until well into next year.

Fusion systems of the stellarator type promise high-performance plasmas in continuous operation. Accordingly, heat and particles from the hot plasma permanently stress the vessel walls. It is the task of the divertor – a system of specially equipped baffle plates to which the particles from the edge of the plasma are magnetically directed – to regulate the interaction between plasma and wall.

Date: Thursday, 19 March 2020
Original article: nucnet.org/news/upgrade-work-enters-new-phase-for-germany-s-wendelstein-7-x-3-3-2020

The upgrade of the world's largest stellarator-type fusion device - Germany's Wendelstein 7-X - is set to enter a new stage with the final delivery of components for the so-called divertor. Preparations for installation of the water-cooled inner cladding components have been completed, with installation work expected to continue well into next year.

Date: Wednesday, 18 March 2020
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Upgrade-of-Wendelstein-7-X-continues


Scientists at China's Institute of Plasma Physics in Hefei Jiangsu province, reported on 3 February that experiments on their Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) facility had successfully created a sustained hydrogen plasma for a record 102 seconds, according to the South China Morning Post.

Date: Tuesday, 09 February 2016
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newschina-claims-fusion-breakthrough-4805805


Scientists at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald on 4 February generated the first hydrogen plasma at the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator, the world's largest and most modern stellarator type fusion device.

Date: Friday, 05 February 2016
Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newsfirst-hydrogen-plasma-from-german-stellarator-4803031

The joining together of the first two modules of a new fusion reactor has begun at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald, Germany. The Wendelstein 7-X stellarator should be complete in 2014.

Date: Tuesday, 15 April 2008
Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Milestone-in-fusion-construction

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