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RSS FeedsResearch provides reassurance that heat flux will be manageable in ITER
(PHYSorg.com Physics)

 
 

26 september 2017 19:32:53

 
Research provides reassurance that heat flux will be manageable in ITER
(PHYSorg.com Physics)
 


A major issue facing ITER, the international tokamak under construction in France that will be the first magnetic fusion device to produce net energy, is whether the crucial divertor plates that will exhaust waste heat from the device can withstand the high heat flux, or load, that will strike them. Alarming projections extrapolated from existing tokamaks suggest that the heat flux could be so narrow and concentrated as to damage the tungsten divertor plates in the seven-story, 23,000 ton tokamak and require frequent and costly repairs. This flux could be comparable to the heat load experienced by spacecraft re-entering Earth`s atmosphere.


 
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