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UK-based Tokamak Energy’s superconducting magnet system, which is being built to replicate fusion energy power plant forces, has passed significant milestone cryogenic tests. Creating fusion energy requires strong magnetic fields to confine and control the extremely hot hydrogen fuel, which becomes a plasma several times hotter than the centre of the Sun.
- Source: NEI Magazine
- Date: Thursday, 21 September 2023
- Original article: neimagazine.com/news/newstokamak-energys-fusion-magnet-system-passes-cryogenic-tests-11159891
Tokamak Energy of the UK is to send its gamma radiation cryostat system to the US Department of Energy's Sandia Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, so that it can be exposed to extreme conditions to test lifetime fusion power plant performance.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Saturday, 29 April 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Tokamak-Energy-magnet-technology-to-be-tested-in-U
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) fusion project has given a progress update on tackling the defects discovered last year in the thermal shields and vacuum vessel sector. It hopes to tender for the thermal shield work, and have a contractor in place, by the end of March.
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Friday, 13 January 2023
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/ITER-to-replace-23km-of-cooling-pipes-on-thermal-s
Iter said in a project update that the two components are the vacuum vessel thermal shields and the vacuum vessel sectors.
The issues “demand in-depth examination, creativity in devising corrective actions, and time and budget to repair”, Iter said.
The vacuum vessel thermal shields are actively cooled silver-plated elements, 20 mm thick that contribute to thermally insulating the plant’s superconducting magnet system operating at 4K, or minus 269C.
- Source: Nucnet
- Date: Thursday, 24 November 2022
- Original article: nucnet.org/news/eur20-billion-project-faces-delays-as-defects-found-in-two-key-first-of-a-kind-components-11-3-2022
The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project has announced defects have been discovered in the thermal shields and vacuum vessel sectors and warned that the consequences on schedule and cost "will not be insignificant".
- Source: World Nuclear News
- Date: Wednesday, 23 November 2022
- Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Defects-found-in-two-key-components-of-ITER-tokama