Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (Siberia)
Posted: Tue Dec 16, 2014 12:58 pm
The artcle also says "The idea of using plasma in controlled thermonuclear reactors actually dates back to the 1950s, when the institute's founder Gersh Budker proposed such a method." This may be one of those funny examples like "who invented the telephone" (or light bulb, or radio) where the answer varies based on national pride, since in other versions of the history of fusion Lyman Spitzer and his stellarator at Princeton perhaps was first. Not that such quibbles of history matter.
The Siberian machine certainly looks very groovy. I want one.
- Charles
[Siberian] Scientists to create prototype for new hot plasma nuclear reactor
http://siberiantimes.com/science/others ... r-reactor/
Scientists in Siberia are developing a pioneering new type of nuclear reactor using temperatures twice as hot as the sun that could create an energy of the future.
Costing approximately 500 million roubles ($9.8 million), it is being built near Novosibirsk by the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics and will allow the study of high energy plasma heated to to an incredible 30 million degrees Celsius to make power.
It is an experimental form of thermonuclear fusion, and it is initially hoped it could be harnessed to incinerate radioactive waste.
But if successful, it could eventually pave the way for a new way of generating electricity.
And since it uses hydrogen isotope deuterium - rather than the radioactive tritium - it is considered far less dangerous and gives out a lower output of energy.
Alexander Ivanov, the deputy director of the institute, said a working prototype of the new reactor will be constructed over the next few years.
He told the Siberian Times: 'This will be a full-scale model of the reactor, which can be used for research or, for example, for the processing of radioactive waste.
'There are a lot of technologies to create such a complex. They are new and it takes some time to master them. All the problems with plasma physics that we will address are relevant to the global scientific community.'
Scientists at the Budker Institute have been experimenting with plasma physics for decades and last December managed a world record temperature of 4.5million degrees Celsius when heating hot plasma in an open quasi-stationary magnetic trap.
[article continues, and with some cool pix]
The Siberian machine certainly looks very groovy. I want one.
- Charles
[Siberian] Scientists to create prototype for new hot plasma nuclear reactor
http://siberiantimes.com/science/others ... r-reactor/
Scientists in Siberia are developing a pioneering new type of nuclear reactor using temperatures twice as hot as the sun that could create an energy of the future.
Costing approximately 500 million roubles ($9.8 million), it is being built near Novosibirsk by the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics and will allow the study of high energy plasma heated to to an incredible 30 million degrees Celsius to make power.
It is an experimental form of thermonuclear fusion, and it is initially hoped it could be harnessed to incinerate radioactive waste.
But if successful, it could eventually pave the way for a new way of generating electricity.
And since it uses hydrogen isotope deuterium - rather than the radioactive tritium - it is considered far less dangerous and gives out a lower output of energy.
Alexander Ivanov, the deputy director of the institute, said a working prototype of the new reactor will be constructed over the next few years.
He told the Siberian Times: 'This will be a full-scale model of the reactor, which can be used for research or, for example, for the processing of radioactive waste.
'There are a lot of technologies to create such a complex. They are new and it takes some time to master them. All the problems with plasma physics that we will address are relevant to the global scientific community.'
Scientists at the Budker Institute have been experimenting with plasma physics for decades and last December managed a world record temperature of 4.5million degrees Celsius when heating hot plasma in an open quasi-stationary magnetic trap.
[article continues, and with some cool pix]